All Outputs (4)

Towards safety: the enablers and barriers that create safety in and around youth work organisations (2025)
Journal Article
Walker, J., Bradbury-Leather, V., & Wroe, L. (online). Towards safety: the enablers and barriers that create safety in and around youth work organisations. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2025.2518954

In light of significant failings to respond to extra-familial harm (EFH) within organisations tasked with statutory duties to protect and promote the welfare of young people, this paper considers the contribution youth work can play in this area. Thi... Read More about Towards safety: the enablers and barriers that create safety in and around youth work organisations.

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. (2025). 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, 55(1), 532–553. 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.

Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems (2002)
Journal Article
Lloyd, J., & Bradbury, V. (2023). Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 29(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2022.2057605

In 2020, student disclosure of sexual harm through the website “Everyone’s Invited” reignited discussions of sexual harm in schools with many calling for “zero tolerance” approaches to sexual harm. This article considers the impact of zero tolerance... Read More about Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems.