All Outputs (8)

‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm (2024)
Journal Article
Holmes, L., Pinto, V. S., Wroe, L. E., Peace, D., & Firmin, C. (online). ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm. The British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae109

In the UK, there has been increased awareness of the harm adolescents face beyond their families. There is no national strategy for safeguarding adolescents. One intervention that comes with particularly high costs is relocation placements by childre... Read More about ‘Relocating Adolescents’: The Costs of Out-of-Area Placements as a Response to Extra-Familial Risk/Harm.

Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms (2024)
Journal Article
Peace, D., Goldsmith, C., & Lefevre, M. (online). Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing Extra‐Familial Risks and Harms. Child & Family Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13163

This paper explores how seven organisations from the children's social care sector in England adapted their service during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions to better meet the needs of young people experiencing extra-familial risks and harms. Partic... Read More about Innovating in the Time of Covid: Adapting Services for Young People Experiencing 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.

‘Relocating’ Adolescents from Risk beyond the Home: What Do We Learn When We Ask about Safety? (2023)
Journal Article
Wroe, L. E., Peace, D., & Firmin, C. (2023). ‘Relocating’ Adolescents from Risk beyond the Home: What Do We Learn When We Ask about Safety?. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(5), 2958–2978. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad077

There is an absence of evidence supporting the use of ‘out-of-area placements’ to address risks adolescents face beyond the home. Approximately one in ten adolescents in England and Wales are ‘relocated’ from their hometowns by children’s social care... Read More about ‘Relocating’ Adolescents from Risk beyond the Home: What Do We Learn When We Ask about Safety?.

Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (2022)
Book
Firmin, C., Lefevre, M., Huegler, N., & Peace, D. (2022). Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447367277

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... Read More about Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms.

Serious Case Reviews and Extra-Familial Harm: Missed and Emerging Opportunities to Develop Contextual Practices (2022)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., Manister, M., & Peace, D. (2023). Serious Case Reviews and Extra-Familial Harm: Missed and Emerging Opportunities to Develop Contextual Practices. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(2), 1077-1098. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac172

The interpersonal harms that young people experience beyond their families have been documented internationally as have the challenges of protecting those effected using existing child welfare systems. Concern about this in the UK has led to developm... Read More about Serious Case Reviews and Extra-Familial Harm: Missed and Emerging Opportunities to Develop Contextual Practices.

‘It's like a much deeper understanding and you kind of believe them more …’ : The value of peer support for young people affected by sexual violence (2022)
Journal Article
Cody, C., Bovarnick, S., & Peace, D. (2023). ‘It's like a much deeper understanding and you kind of believe them more …’ : The value of peer support for young people affected by sexual violence. Child Abuse Review, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2789

Research demonstrates that relationships are key when working to support young people affected by sexual violence. Within these relationships, young people show a preference for non-judgemental, flexible, consistent and informal support. Peer support... Read More about ‘It's like a much deeper understanding and you kind of believe them more …’ : The value of peer support for young people affected by sexual violence.

‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence (2022)
Journal Article
Cody, C., Bovarnick, S., Peace, D., & Warrington, C. (2022). ‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence. Children & Society, 36(5), 1043-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12555

There is increasing recognition of the value of trauma-informed approaches when working with young people affected by sexual violence. Peer support is a key principle of a trauma-informed approach; however, there are limited examples of peer support... Read More about ‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence.