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What can we learn from multi-agency meetings to address extra-familial harm to young people?

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Abstract

Multi-agency panel meetings to address extra-familial harm (EFH) are an integral part of the safeguarding landscape. In recent times, there has been a proliferation of such meetings with the aim of creating safety for young people. Yet little is known about what happens in these meetings or what difference they make to lives of young people at risk or experiencing EFH. This chapter is based on 16 meeting observations across three sites. It presents practitioner talk within meetings to illuminate the degree to which they align with the four domains of Contextual Safeguarding and position young people’s perspectives as pivotal to the development of safeguarding responses within extra-familial contexts. It identifies a series of essential features to ensure that meetings move beyond “talking and tasking” and focus on actions that really are ‘actions’ to intervene in contexts of concern rather than over-relying on tasking practitioners to gather more information.

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Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Host publication Subtitle

The Next Chapter

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 132-144 (13 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 20/07/2023

Publication status

Published - 20/07/2023

Place of publication

Bristol

Publisher

Bristol University Press, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781447366430

ISBN (Electronic)

9781447366454

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626019
  • Scopus: 85167664721

Host publication title

Contextual Safeguarding

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