Free Workshop

Pupil Voices through a Contextual Safeguarding Lens: A framework to support safeguarding professionals

Strengthen your safeguarding approach with a contextual framework that places the voice of the child at its core. Using real-world case studies and reflective practice, participants will explore how to identify, evidence, and respond to harm occurring outside the family environment.

Online – Click to reserve spot!

Wednesday 25th June 2025

3.30-4.15pm

Are you managing the complex, real-world risks young people face in their communities?

Join this powerful workshop to discover how to apply a contextual safeguarding lens that shifts the focus to where and how harm occurs, and what young people actually need. Designated Safeguarding Leads, Safeguarding Professionals, and Multi-Agency Practitioners will leave with enhanced understanding and practical tools to:

Recognise and respond to extra-familial harm, including risks in peer groups, schools, neighbourhoods, and online spaces.
Embed the authentic voice of the child in your safeguarding practice
Applying contextual safeguarding principles to day-to-day practice across individual, school, and community settings.
Strengthen collaboration between schools, young people and families, and local authority services
Tools to reduce risk and enhance resilience in your setting

About your hosts

Sam Godfrey

A nationally recognized safeguarding leader with over 15 years of experience. Sam brings real-world insights from working across secondary schools and specialist settings, with a focus on trauma, SEMH, suicide awareness and prevention, and safer recruitment practices. Sam Godfrey is Director for Safeguarding and Attendance at Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust.

Jason Tait

In addition to pastoral care and safeguarding across his school, Jason helps schools leverage student input to drive systemic change. He combines expertise in child-centered design, social justice, and digital innovation. Jason is also co-founder of award-winning platform The Student Voice.

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Feedback from previous attendees…

“Great opportunity to learn and hear practical ways that contextualized safeguarding is incorporated into community settings . Excellent information and best practice shared. Would definitely recommend to anyone working alongside young people.”

Barnardo's Counter Trafficking / Modern Slavery Team

“Thank you! Really good information and thought-provoking in terms of the safeguarding interventions for places rather than people.”

“Thank you very much for this valuable session. It was well presented, the slides were clear and are useful and the presenters offered insight into an important topic that was applicable to a whole range of settings and services. I particularly liked the practical suggestions such as heat mapping and the case studies discussed.”

“I attended yesterday and found it brilliant. Well done Helena, good information shared which I reasonated with a lot. I am a promoter of Prof Firmins work and supported the first contextual safeguarding pilot in Hackney many year ago. Around that time practitioners like myself witnessed the power of contextual safeguarding. School nurses working with librarians to a plain clothes police officers in the local McDonalds engaging with the known vulnerable, and exploited children. It was evidence of how collaborative work at all levels is essential and the need for professional to communicate effectively with the focus of the child at the centre.”

“Excellent knowledge imparted really clearly. I found the session very useful in improving my understanding of the topic of extra-familial harm and contextual safeguarding.”