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Value-informed approaches to peer mapping and assessment: learning from test sites

  • Carly Adams Elias
    ,
  • Lisa Marie Thornhill
    ,
  • Hannah Millar
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

Peer relationships are relevant to safeguarding young people affected by extra-familial harm (EFH) and, in recent years, local authorities have become increasingly interested in using peer mapping and peer assessment to support their safeguarding responses. This chapter explores some of the themes which have surfaced while reflecting on the developing practice with peers being piloted by the Contextual Safeguarding (CS) test sites. We foreground the views of young people to emphasise the importance of engaging and working alongside them in developing this practice. We use this to outline some potential benefits and risks identified in the data of safeguarding work with peer groups and reflect on what could happen when these practices are employed without the application of the values. The chapter explores three connected themes which have emerged from the data to help consider priorities for developing peer mapping and assessments. They include leading with a child welfare rather than crime detection lens, building relationships of trust over relationships of surveillance and moving beyond mapping to understand and respond to the social conditions of abuse. We contemplate the notion that how we undertake work with peers is as important as what we do.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Host publication Subtitle

The Next Chapter

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 44-57 (14 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 20/07/2023

Publication status

Published - 20/07/2023

Publisher

Policy Press, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781447366423

ISBN (Electronic)

9781447366454

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626902
  • Scopus: 85167708285

Host publication title

Contextual Safeguarding

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