Journal of Children's Services: Volume 17 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Carlene Firmin, Kristine Hickle, Susan Rayment-McHugh

Circles of analysis: a systemic model of child criminal exploitation

Craig Barlow, Alicia Kidd, Simon T. Green, Bethany Darby

Child criminal exploitation (CCE) emerges from the complex interplay between potential targets, motivated perpetrators and conducive environments. Drawing on contextual…

A synthesis of contextual safeguarding and commonly used child safeguarding theoretical models and approaches

Nhlanganiso Nyathi

This paper aims to argue that contextual safeguarding complements existing theoretical models and approaches. Its successful integration with dominant thinking and practice in…

Introducing a contextual lens to assessment and intervention for young people who engage in harmful sexual behaviour: an Australian case study

Susan Rayment-McHugh, Dimity Adams, Nadine McKillop

Intervention for young people engaging in harmful sexual behaviour has been largely based on individual-level conceptualisations and assessment. Prevention efforts reflect this…

Revisiting social workers in schools (SWIS) – making the case for safeguarding in context and the potential for reach

Jennifer Rafter

Recently, there have been renewed calls to place social workers in schools. Although these are not unchartered waters, contextual understandings of safeguarding have reaffirmed…

Implementing the contextual safeguarding approach: a study in one local authority

Nathaniel Wilson, Clive Diaz, Juan Usubillaga

This study aims to explore how local authority child and family practitioners understood and implement the contextual safeguarding approach focusing, in particular, on what…