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A route to safety: using bus boarding data to identify roles for transport providers within contextual safeguarding systems

  • Carlene Firmin
    ,
  • Matthew Abbott
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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

During adolescence, risk to young people’s safety shifts from familial to community contexts. Contextual safeguarding has emerged in response to this dynamic; by providing a conceptual framework through which to incorporate extra-familial contexts (and those who manage them) into traditionally family-focused child protection systems. This paper uses GiS mapping techniques to explore the extent to which bus boarding data could be used to: target protective interventions in public spaces; evidence routes where young people may be vulnerable; and build local area problem profiles. In doing so it provides foundational evidence for including transport providers in contextual safeguarding systems.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 381-392

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Children and Society (Volume 32, Issue 5)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 10/01/2018

Publication status

Published - 10/01/2018

ISSN

0951-0605

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622754
  • Scopus: 85040186464

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