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

Firmin, Carlene

 
9781447378815: Beyond Risk in Adolescent Safeguarding: Creating Conditions for Young People to Flourish

Synopsis

Drawing on a major multi-disciplinary research project, the book offers a bold vision for reimagining adolescent safeguarding, showing how institutions can shift from risk-centred responses to safeguarding to systems that deliver what all young people need to live full lives and to be safe in the process.

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About the Authors

Carlene Firmin is Professor of Social Work at Durham University. She previously worked as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, where she developed the Contextual Safeguarding programme. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest black woman to receive an MBE for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK.

Michelle Lefevre is Professor of Social Work at the University of Sussex. She previously trained and practised as a social worker and arts psychotherapist, particularly in the context of safeguarding.

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