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The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms (2025)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Firmin, C., Garvey, D., O’Brien, K., & Owens, R. (2025). The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms. Social Sciences, 14(2), Article 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14020097

Due to harmful narratives within child welfare and child protection services and systems, mothers in contact with these services who aim to meet the symbolic representation of the ‘ideal mother’ frequently find themselves being portrayed as the ‘bad... Read More about The Impossibility of ‘Good Mothering’ in Child Welfare Systems When Referred for Non-Traditional Harms.

How Family Group Conferencing Can Support a Contextual Safeguarding Response to Community-based Youth Harm: Lessons for Practice from a Participatory Study (2024)
Journal Article
Owens, R., & Bradbury-Leather, V. (online). How Family Group Conferencing Can Support a Contextual Safeguarding Response to Community-based Youth Harm: Lessons for Practice from a Participatory Study. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae157

This article reports on a study that brought Family Group Conferencing (FGC) and Contextual Safeguarding together to create an innovative practice response to extra-familial harm. It took place as part of a wider research project into the implementat... Read More about How Family Group Conferencing Can Support a Contextual Safeguarding Response to Community-based Youth Harm: Lessons for Practice from a Participatory Study.

Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them (2024)
Journal Article
Owens, R., Walker, J., & Bradbury-Leather, V. (online). Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2348727

When young people are harmed beyond their families, what kinds of professional relationships help to keep them safe? Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to creating safety in community and school contexts that asks how changes can be made in the e... Read More about Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them.

Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
Book
Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., Lloyd, J., Owens, R., Damman, J., Ruch, G., & Firmin, C. (2024). Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371250

Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation? The authors provide an overview of the proje... Read More about Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.

Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm (2023)
Journal Article
Lloyd, J., Hickle, K., Owens, R., & Peace, D. (2023). Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm. Children & Society, 38(4), 1113-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12787

This article explores the synergies between relationship-based practice and contextual safeguarding when working with young people experiencing extra-familial risk and harm (EFRH). The article draws on data from interviews, observations, policy revie... Read More about Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm.

Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice (2023)
Book Chapter
Lloyd, J., & Owens, R. (2023). Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding (147-159). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447366454.012

Ask any parent, or child, what a good outcome for a child would be and they are likely to talk about being ‘happy’ or ‘healthy’, ‘having friends’ or access to the things they need. Ask someone working in a quality assurance team in children's social... Read More about Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice.

From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm (2023)
Journal Article
Owens, R., & Lloyd, J. (2023). From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm. Journal of Social Work, 23(4), 741–760. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231162553

Summary: In the United Kingdom (UK), inquiries into the abuse of adolescents harmed in contexts beyond their families frequently document failures in multi-agency arrangements. Forms of extra-familial harm, such as criminal and sexual exploitation, o... Read More about From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm.