Safeguarding young people beyond the family home : responding to extra-familial risks and harms

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. During adolescence, young people are exposed to a range of risks beyond their family homes including sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse and gang-related violence. However, it has only been over the past two decades that the critical safeguarding implications of these harms have started to be recognised. Social care organisations are increasingly experimenting with new approaches but continue to experience challenges in supporting affected young people and their families. This book analyses the results of the first rapid evidence assessment of social care organisations’ responses to risks and harms outside the home across 10 countries. The authors highlight key areas for service development, give insights into how these risks and harms can be understood, and consider wider implications for policy and practice. Front Cover Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra- Familial Risks and Harms Copyright information Table of contents List of figures Acknowledgments ONE The emerging concept of extra-familial risks and harms Introduction EFRH: what is included? From youth justice to welfare: the emergent policy response in the UK Adopting a welfare-based approach to EFRH: shared global challenges but divergent responses Balancing rights to protection and autonomy Balancing welfare and criminal justice paradigms Individualised or restrictive intervention models Charting a way forward: the contribution of this book TWO A framework for analysing the evidence Introduction Identifying relevant literature Analysing and categorising Building a thematic framework Characteristics of effective or promising social care responses Clustering types of harm A note on the limitations of this review Moving forward THREE Building relationships Introduction Building trusted relationships between young people and professionals Building working alliances with young people, parents and carers Developing community and wider networks of relational support Conclusion FOUR Improving interagency collaboration Introduction Partnerships, processes and protocols Challenges of interagency working: inconsistency and discord Shared activities or shared goals? Building a common purpose FIVE Changing contexts of harm Introduction Responding to peer, school, and community contexts Struggling to address structural drivers The limitations of individualised approaches Conclusion: the need for system change SIX Addressing the specific dynamics of risk and harm Introduction Responding beyond parenting or family-focused intervention Rebalancing towards welfare-oriented system responses Recognising and responding to the ‘gains’ of EFRH Conclusion: fit for purpose? SEVEN A youth-centred paradigm Introduction Collaborative and choice-focused support Intersecting identities, needs and experiences Trauma-informed practices From ‘doing to’ to ‘working with’ EIGHT A framework for designing and improving responses Introduction Using contextual and relational interventions as reinforcing approaches to intervention Re-envisioning the social work role and definitions of vulnerability Mitigating the impact of structural drivers on social care responses A framework for designing systems and improving responses to EFRH NINE New directions for the UK and beyond Introduction Looking back, moving forward Evidence problems The adolescence ‘problem’ System and service problems Applying principles of ethical innovation to improving and transforming responses Incorporating human rights principles into service responses Transforming systems and practices in line with social justice concerns Prioritising young people’s voices Glossary References Index Back Cover During adolescence, young people are exposed to a range of harms and risks beyond their family homes and this book assesses social care organisations’ safeguarding responses across 10 countries. The authors highlight key areas for service development and give insights into how these risks and harms can be responded to in the future.