ASF practice tools and resources

Practice tools

• One-Minute Guide – contextual safeguarding
• Neighbourhood Safety Mapping Exercise
• Peer-group Mapping guidance
• Worried about your child and gangs? 4 key questions
• Context Meeting Observation – Template

Training slides and resources

• The Adolescent Safety Framework – A Participatory Approach​ (PowerPoint)
• TED talk – The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
• Child Sexual Abuse Review 27(1), 42-57 – Contextual Risk, Individual Responses: An Assessment of Safeguarding Responses to Nine Cases of Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Information for parents and young people

Information for young people and their families in relation to Safer Me and Safer Me Plus meetings. The attendance and/or participation of the young person and their family at Safer Me meetings is paramount to this strength-based approach and all meeting structures should reflect this.

• Information for Parents (Safer Me – Child In Need)
• Information for parents (Safer Me Plus – Child Protection Conferences)
• Information for young people (Safer Me – Child In Need)
• Information for young people (Safer Me Plus – Child Protection Conferences)
• Parent / Carer feedback form
• Young people’s feedback form

FAQs

Please refer to our FAQs about the ASF and Safer Me.

The Contextual Safeguarding Network

The Contextual Safeguarding Network (often abbreviated as CSN) is a UK-based initiative that develops, guides and promotes the contextual safeguarding approach. The Contextual Safeguarding Network website has more information and resources, including the following videos.

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