*Please note this session will now take place on June 18, from 11 am - 12 pm*

This session will introduce Contextual Safeguarding, an approach to safeguarding young people from the harm they experience beyond their families (extra-familial harm) and share considerations about how the approach could support practitioners to safeguard unaccompanied young people. The presentation will draw on findings from the Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders project, in which Contextual Safeguarding was piloted for the first time with refugee young people in Germany.

SPEAKERS

Dr Lauren Wroe

Lauren is a researcher and social worker. She is a co-founder of Social Workers Without Bordersand an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Durham University in the Contextual Safeguarding team. Lauren’s work is interested in how structural inequalities shape young people's experiences of violence and abuse in their communities, and their experience of harm reduction services and safeguarding.

Delphine Peace

Delphine is a researcher in the Department of Sociology at Durham University and part of the Contextual Safeguarding Research Programme. Using embedded and action-orientated research, she works alongside practitioners to develop new approaches to safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm. Her research currently explores how Contextual Safeguarding can support practitioners to safeguard refugee young people in the UK and in other European settings.

* This event is part of the Stand Up! Speak Out! Solidarity Knows No Borders Training Series 2024.

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