Transitional safeguarding / Christine Cocker, Dez Holmes, and Adi Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cocker, Christine, author.

Holmes, Dez, author.

Cooper, Adi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with teenagers--Great Britain.

Social work with teenagers.

Social work with youth--Great Britain.

Social work with youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people aged 15-24 who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

Contents:

Front Cover

Transitional Safeguarding

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

PART I Making the case for change

1 What do care-experienced young people say?

What adulthood means

Choice, control and consequences

What makes adulthood hard

What transitional support looks like and should look like

Risk, safety and safeguarding

Self-development and identity

It is all about relationships

Young people's vision for system change

Conclusion

2 The challenge of safeguarding binaries

Exploring current binaries within safeguarding policy and practice

The human and economic costs of the current binary system

Examining the six key principles of Transitional Safeguarding

Beware binary thinking in applying the key principles

3 Negotiating legal and social policy frameworks

An overview of safeguarding in children's and adult social services in England

Children's safeguarding and the role of child death inquiries

Key issues relevant to safeguarding during adolescence: institutional inquiries

Systems changes

Frameworks for Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

Adult protection and adult safeguarding

Learning from institutional reviews (adults)

Learning from SARs

Frameworks for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Similarities and differences in children's and adults' safeguarding in England

4 Emerging adulthood as a developmental stage

Human development and life course theory

Emerging Adulthood as a distinct life stage

Life course theory

Strengths and weaknesses

Risk and risk taking

The impact of trauma

Additional issues for some young people

Case study: Newham Hub.

Case study: Dorset Birth to Settled Adulthood programme

PART II Learning from current practices

5 Learning from safeguarding children and beyond

How we got here

Tensions within children's safeguarding and their relevance to young people at risk

Exploring key innovations within children's safeguarding

Transitional approaches outside of safeguarding

Drawing the learning together

6 Learning from safeguarding adults for Transitional Safeguarding practice

Safeguarding adults under the Care Act 2014

Tensions in safeguarding young people: exploring the 'cliff edge' at 18

Making Safeguarding Personal

Human rights, mental capacity, and equalities: legal literacy in safeguarding adults

7 Transitional Safeguarding and transitions1

What is the difference between 'transitions' and 'Transitional Safeguarding'?

Guidance and legal requirements for transitions planning

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Code of Practice

Youth Justice and transitions guidance

Care-experienced young people

The Care Act 2014 and transitions planning

Responsibilities across boundaries

Transitions panels

What matters in transitions planning

Care Quality Commission review

Mental capacity

Transitions and safeguarding prevention

8 Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Serious Case Reviews, and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews about care-experienced young people

Rationale for work

Transitional Safeguarding framework for SAR analysis

Themes from the analysis of reviews involving care-experienced young people

Discussion

Contextual/ecological

Transitional/Developmental

Relational.

Participative

Equalities informed

Evidence informed

PART III Innovations

9 Innovations in Transitional Safeguarding

Collecting examples of Transitional Safeguarding work

Typology for examples of local initiatives

Examples of Transitional Safeguarding initiatives

Reflections on the examples

10 Transitional Safeguarding as whole systems change

Why Transitional Safeguarding is a 'systems' issue

Systems thinking and systems leadership

Innovation, implementation, and impact: implications for Transitional Safeguarding

Learning from other whole system approaches

Framing of Transitional Safeguarding in terms of policy solutions

Applying the key principles of Transitional Safeguarding to the endeavour of whole systems change

Conclusion: Moving forward

Moving away from the safeguarding binary

Leading change

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Dec 2024).

ISBN:

1-4473-6558-5