Professor Carlene Firmin's Outputs (5)

Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (2023)
Book
Firmin, C., & Lloyd, J. (Eds.). (2023). Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366454

This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt from the Contextual Safeguarding approach to understanding harm that happens to young people in their communities and wh... Read More about Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter.

From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system (2023)
Book Chapter
Wroe, L., Lloyd, J., & Manister, M. (2023). From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (17-29). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447366454-007

A body of social work literature evidences the relationship between the wider contexts of young people’s lives, such as poverty, austerity, racism and so on, their experiences of harm and the child protection response to it. This literature casts a l... Read More about From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system.

Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach (2023)
Book Chapter
Manister, M., Wroe, L., & Adams Elias, C. (2023). Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach. In C. Firmin, & J. Lloyd (Eds.), Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter (30-43). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447366454-008

As the previous chapter has shown, there is a case to be made for thinking about context beyond physical location and into how inequalities shape the places and spaces where young people spend their time. By exploring how racism, poverty, ableism, se... Read More about Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach.

‘This has given people what is needed’: progress and pitfalls for establishing child protection pathways in England that address significant harm beyond families (2023)
Journal Article
Firmin, C., & Manister, M. (2023). ‘This has given people what is needed’: progress and pitfalls for establishing child protection pathways in England that address significant harm beyond families. Child and family law quarterly, 35(2), 159-182

Child protection systems, and the legal frameworks underpinning them, are central to safeguarding young people at risk of significant harm. However, their design often assumes that the risks young people need protecting from are attributable to the a... Read More about ‘This has given people what is needed’: progress and pitfalls for establishing child protection pathways in England that address significant harm beyond families.

‘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. (online). ‘Relocating’ Adolescents from Risk beyond the Home: What Do We Learn When We Ask about Safety?. The British Journal of Social Work, Article bcad077. 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?.