Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding: Creating Conditions for Young People to Flourish

From sexual violence within friendship groups to being groomed in community contexts for transporting drugs, extra-familial risks and harms continue to challenge traditional safeguarding approaches in the UK. These issues inhibit young people’s safety and well-being and reduce their opportunities to develop as they grow.

Offering a bold and hopeful alternative, this book draws on a major multi-disciplinary research project involving practitioners, parents and young people. It asks how we c...