Course overview of Contextual Safeguarding
This contextual safeguarding course is your first step in becoming skilled in this specialist area. Furthermore, Contextual Safeguarding recognises that young people are influenced by a whole range of environments and people outside of their family. For example in school or college, by friends and in the local community.
Contextual safeguarding looks at how we can best understand risks in each of these environments, engage with children and young people and help to keep them safe.
Course content
This course will cover:
- What contextual safeguarding is
- How contextual safeguarding has developed
- How contextual safeguarding works to influence practice
- Case studies

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Aims of Contextual Safeguarding course
By the end of this training, you will:
- Know what contextual safeguarding is
- Understand how contextual safeguarding has developed
- Be able to explain how contextual safeguarding works in your practice
- Be able to demonstrate your knowledge using case studies
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This Contextual Safeguarding course designed specifically for people who want to understand what contextual safeguarding is and how it has developed. However, we have also created separate courses designed and tailored specifically for those that work in children's services and Education settings.