Safer Me resource pack

The Safer Me Assessment is a multi-disciplinary assessment that identifies and analyses the risk of exploitation, extra-familial and contextual harm to a young person. You will find all of our Safer Me resources below or you can read our guidance about the Safer Me assessment here.

Safer Me resource pack

Safer Me Assessment flowchart

The Safer Me assessment flowchart provides guidance for the correct identification of risks and proactive factors to create a whole picture of the factors involved.

Screening tool

This screening tool provides a guide as to the most appropriate response to the needs of a child, family or context.

Safer Me assessment

The Safer Me Assessment is a multi-disciplinary assessment that identifies and analyses the risk of exploitation, extra-familial and contextual harm to a young person. The harm is considered and assessed within a variety of different contexts and guides professionals to think about the impact and influence of peers, school environments, the wider neighbourhood/community and online spaces. Where necessary this will lead professionals to consider broader contextual responses as we as thinking about the individual needs and risks for the young person.

Safer Me and Safer Me Plus pack

The Safer Me and Safer Me Plus pack includes guidance and resources for individual planning and intervention. These meetings are held following a Safer Me Assessment where concerns have highlighted extra-familiar threats and/or exploitation.  Safer Me or Safer Me Plus meetings provide a model of planning  with young people to improve their safety, within the established Early Help, Child In Need (CIN) and Child Protection  processes.   The meetings should ensure that areas of risk and need are addressed in a strengths based and evidence-informed manner, anchored in an understanding of adolescent development, risk taking and safeguarding.

Safer Me meetings are facilitated by either a lead professional (Early help) or Social Worker (CIN) or the young person’s nominated Trusted Adult. They provide an alternative to either Team Around the Family (TAF)  or CIN meetings where risks from outside the family home are the PRIMARY risk. Safer Me meetings can also be held to consider contextual and external risks for individual Children in Care (CIC). These meetings would be held in addition to CIC Statutory Reviews and would be facilitated by  a suitable professional identified within Children’s Social Care.

Safer Me Plus meetings are facilitated by an Independent Child Protection Chair and provide an alternative to a Child Protection conference where risks from outside the family home are the PRIMARY risk. These meetings will be triggered by the statutory route of strategy discussion, s47 enquiry and screening discussions.

Context Referral, Assessment and Conference pack

The Context Referral, Assessment and Conference is a multi-agency assessment and meeting that aims to explore the broader situation or environment in which harm is present. It does not assess, plan or intervene for individual young people but instead seeks to assess and intervene with the context itself in order to reduce its influence or role in the harm presented to young people.

The pack includes guidance and resources on making a referral for a context, undertaking a Context Assessment and facilitating a Context Conference, which may include Peer Group Conferences, School Conferences or Neighbourhood conferences. More specific guidance for the three different context approaches are outlined below:

1. School context conference referral form
   • This pack includes guidance and resources to undertake a School context Assessment and Meeting. These meetings are facilitated by a school, following a school context assessment, when it is deemed that this context is one in which young people are at risk of harm.2.
2. Peer group context conference referral form
   • This pack includes guidance and resources to undertake a Peer Context Assessment and Meeting. It is facilitated by Children’s Social Care and held when it is deemed that there are concerns for a group of young people who are at risk of contextual harm
3. Neighbourhood context conference assessment pack
   • This pack includes guidance and resources to undertake a Community Context Assessment and Neighbourhood Meeting. This is facilitated by Community Safety Partnerships, when it is deemed that this wider community context is one in which young people are at risk of harm.

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