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In the SAIL Useful Links area provides you with a single point of access to all of the references, research and resources that have influenced or contributed to the content in SAIL as well as additional links that guide practitioners to other tools and information that can support practice.
Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) multi-agency principles – Useful Links
The Child First Principles- Useful Links
Structural harm (extract) by Luke Billingham, Youth worker, Hackney Quest & Researcher, Open University – Useful Links
Racial equity – Useful Links
Adolescent safeguarding systems and an ecological approach’ – Useful Links
The London Context – Useful Links
Child safeguarding practice reviews and rapid review assessments – Useful Links
Biological Changes – Useful Links
Puberty and your body | Childline
24765_Supporting your Child to go through Puberty_4E.pdf
Worried about your gender identity? Advice for teenagers – NHS
Think your child might be trans or non-binary? – NHS
What social workers should consider when working with LGTBQ+ people – Community Care
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/trans-teenager/
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/think-your-child-might-be-trans-or-non-binary/
Sexually appropriate behaviour – Useful Links
Sexual Identity – Useful Links
Sexual Orientation (LGB+) – The Proud Trust
YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds
Fumble’s content series: “Am I trans?” Translating sex, identity & relationships
Find a sexual health clinic – NHS
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/resources/list-lgbtq-terms
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/sexual-health-services/find-a-sexual-health-clinic
Cultural sensitivity and humility by Power the Fight – Useful Links
Resources: TIP Report 2020 Video Summary – https://youtu.be/WbvRmpAMC-o
Ben Lindsay’s TED Talk on Cultural Sensitivity – https://youtu.be/TfIcEYAWqXs
Power the Fight have recently launched an online training platform. You can find out more here https://www.powerthefight.org.uk/what-we-do/training/
Sense of Self – Useful Links
Cultural influences on brain development – Useful Links
Experiencing the world differently – Useful Links
Specific neurodivergence – Useful Links
Autism
https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/autism
https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/resources-for-autistic-teenagers
ADHD
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/adhd-children-teenagers
Demand Avoidance:
https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/behaviour/demand-avoidance
Neurodiversity, safeguarding and exploitation – Useful Links
Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and criminal justice – hidden difficulties and opportunities to support – Useful Links
Understanding and regulating emotions – Useful Links
Your Choice – Useful Links
Find out more about the programme or email the Your Choice central team at LIIA at yourchoice@londoncouncils.gov.uk
Reminder! Your Choice is currently being accredited. If you’re interested in delivery your choice in your area please reach out to our Your Choice team .
Creating conducive conditions – Useful Links
Mattering, by Luke Billingham, Youth worker, Hackney Quest & Researcher, Open University – Useful Links
Digital open-access version of Against Youth Violence chapter about mattering: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9781529214086/ch003.xml
Video of Against Youth Violence book launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Ccgf7MRr0
Blog connecting structural harm and mattering: https://mabdallah.substack.com/p/mattering-is-not-just-inside-peoples
Working with parents, carers, family and wider networks – Useful Links
Featured resources include:
- Contextual Safeguarding Implementation Toolkit – resources for working with families, tools for identifying extra-familial risks.
- PACE website – case studies and the Relational Safeguarding Model.
- Podcast: Parents’ Views on Contextual Safeguarding – Lisa Thornhill speaks with parents about their experiences.
- The Children’s Society – Trauma and Young People – guidance for parents and professionals.
- Missing People – All of Us Were Broken – family experiences of child criminal exploitation.
- Swindon CE Practitioner Resource – practitioner guidance on child exploitation.
Practice Tools and Resources
- The Children’s Society: Trauma and Young People
- Ivison Trust – We support families affected by child exploitation.
- Parenting Through Adversity (11–18) Practice Guide
References & Acknowledgements
- Beckett, H., Holmes, D., & Walker, J. (2017). Child Sexual Exploitation: Definition & Guide for Professionals.
- Department for Education (2023). Working Together to Safeguard Children.
- Firmin, C. (2017). Contextual Safeguarding: An overview of the operational, strategic and conceptual framework.
- Hackney Council & University of Bedfordshire (2020). Assessment and Intervention Planning Guide.
- Missing People (2020). All of Us Were Broken.
- PACE (2014). Relational Safeguarding Model.
- PACE (2019). The Cry of the Brave and Broken Hearted Parent.
- Palmer, T., & Jenkins, P. (2013). Parents as Partners in Safeguarding Children: An evaluation of Pace’s work in four Lancashire CSE teams.
- Scott, S., & McNeish, D. (2017). Supporting Parents of Sexually Exploited Young People: An Evidence Review.
- Shuker, L., & Ackerley, E. (2017). Empowering Parents: Evaluation of Parents as Partners in Safeguarding Children and Young People in Lancashire Project.
- Swindon Safeguarding Partnership (2020). Child Exploitation Practitioner Resource.
- The Children’s Society (2018). Trauma and Young People: A Guide for Parents and Professionals.
- Contextual Safeguarding (2020). Working with Parents to Address Extra-Familial Harm.
- Contextual Safeguarding Blog (2020). “You are caring about me, I’m caring about you…”.
Structural harm by Luke Billingham, Youth worker, Hackney Quest & Researcher, Open University – Useful Links
Digital open-access version of Against Youth Violence: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9781529214086/9781529214086.xml
Video of Against Youth Violence book launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Ccgf7MRr0
Podcast episode focused on Against Youth Violence: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/02/09/podcast-how-should-we-respond-to-youth-violence/
Blog connecting structural harm and mattering: https://mabdallah.substack.com/p/mattering-is-not-just-inside-peoples
Making sense of risk, need and vulnerability through formulation – Useful Links
Balancing a young person’s wishes with their best interests – Useful Links
For further information, see the NSPCC guidance on Gillick competence and Fraser Guidelines.
Adolescent neglect – Useful Links
Luton SCB and The Children’s Society 2018, Briefing for Professionals on Adolescent Neglect and full report ‘Thinking About Adolescent Neglect’. Both reports provide an excellent resource for considering the multi-dimensional nature of adolescent neglect and the practice context for developing effective responses.
THINKING_ABOUT_ADOLESCENT_NEGLECT (1).pdf
BRIEFINGFORPROFESSIONALSONADOLESCENTNEGLECT.pdf
Understanding Adolescent Neglect: Troubled Teens, Phil Paws, The Children’s Society 2016. Primary research from TCS.
troubled-teens-executive-summary.pdf
Teenage Neglect: Systematic review, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 2022. This review uses a ‘rapid review’ methodology to evaluate the scientific literature the self-reported features of adolescents aged 13 – 17 completed years who are experiencing any form of neglect including physical, emotional, supervisory, medical, educational or nutritional and / or emotional maltreatment (EM) published up until March 2022
Teenage neglect: systematic review – RCPCH Child Protection Portal
‘Young People Negotiating Intra and Extra Familial Harm and Safety: Social and Holistic Approaches’ Lauren Wroe with Jenny Pearce in Safeguarding Young People, 2022
Lauren Wroe and Jenny Pearce examine the relationship between intra-familial harm and neglect and extra-familial harm. In doing so they propose a holistic and structurally framework for understanding the intersections between intra-familial and extra-familial harm.
Young people experiencing domestic abuse within the family home – Useful Links
Useful resources:
Safe Young Lives | Young people & domestic abuse – SafeLives
Children-and-Young-People-Insights-Dataset-2024-2025.pdf: data insights from 1850 children and young people accessing SaferLives services in the UK
Protecting children from domestic abuse | NSPCC Learning (including RSE resources for schools)
The impact of coercive control on children and young people | NSPCC Learning
To get help:
Childline: call 0800 1111, or sign up so you can online chat and send messages (9am – midnight)
The police: if it’s an emergency, call 999. If you can’t speak, listen to the questions and tap or cough to answer. Press 55 to signal an emergency.
Young victims of domestic abuse in intimate partner relationships – Useful Links
Advice – LoveRespectLoveRespect : Provided by Women’s Aid and includes advice for 14-17 year olds and 18-24 year olds.
ttps://www.respectyps.org.uk/services/directory: Directory of services supporting young people experiencing abuse in relationships. The Children’s Society – Teenage Relationship Abuse
https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/young-people/advice/teenage-relationship-abuse
Advice and guidance for young people on recognising and responding to abuse.
Reducing the Risk – Abuse in Teenage Relationships
Information and resources for professionals and young people on teen relationship abuse.
Disrespect Nobody: RSE / PHSE resources from Home Office and NCA campaign Disrespect Nobody, to support schools to prevent the onset of abuse in relationships by challenging attitudes and behaviours amongst young people in relationships.
PSHE resource – film aimed at 15-16 year olds.
Child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse (CAPVA) – Useful Links
County Lines – Useful Links
Serious violence duty – Useful Links
Missing – Useful Links
Continuum of Need – Useful Links
Contextual safeguarding – Useful Links
Transitional Safeguarding – Useful Links
Developing racial equity in adolescent safeguarding – Useful Links
Some data snapshots – Useful Links
Why achieving racial equity feels hard and what we can do – Useful Links
Racial Equity resources and existing practice – Useful Links
Extreme ethnic inequalities in the care system – University of Huddersfield
Safeguarding children from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities | NSPCC Learning
Safeguarding reviews silent on Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children – GOV.UK
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/best-practice/local-spotlight-lewisham-council
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/features/making-children-s-services-leadership-more-diverse
Adultification – in development with Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Care Ambassador and Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel member – Useful Links
Child-Q-PUBLISHED-14-March-22.pdf : Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the experience of a 15 year old girl strip searched by police at school, which is recognised as a high profile example of the damaging impact of adultification bias.
Child Q Update Report – Why was it me? – YouTube : a video delivered by Jim Gambol on behalf of the Hackney Safeguarding Children’s Board updating on progress one year on from the publication of the Child Q Child Safeguarding Practice Review.
Adultification bias within child protection and safeguarding: HMIP academic insights series report produced by Jahnine Davis.
cspr_lilo_-_june_2023.pdf This Child Safeguarding Practice Review was commissioned by Lewisham Safeguarding Children Partnership in respect of a Black British Caribbean male, ‘Lilo’, who died at the age of 17 in 2021. He died as a result of being stabbed, in the context of extra-familial harm. Adultification bias was found to be significant in the context of Lilo’s life.
Safeguarding children from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities | NSPCC Learning
Boys to men: the cost of ‘adultification’ in safeguarding responses to Black boys in: Critical and Radical Social Work Volume 8 Issue 2 (2020): in this paper Davis and Marsh argue that in order to provide meaningful and effective support to Black boys, both the use of an intersectional lens and an awareness of adultification is necessary.
“It’s Silent”: Race, racism and safeguarding children – Panel Briefing 4: The national safeguarding children panel report analysing responses to race and racism in CSPRs (authored by Jahnine Davis).
Girls-in-the-YJS-webinar-Tues-10-June-2025-Slide-pack.pdf: Presentations including Jahnine Davis on adultification
Children in care and care leavers – Useful Links
Reducing the criminalisation of children looked after and care leavers – Useful Links
Girls & Young Women – Useful Links
[1] https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/034ed60aa6564c1fbdcfb03fd8e6a210.pdf
[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/domesticabusevictimcharacteristicsenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2024#sex
[3] https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/statistics-sexual-violence/
[4] https://www.femicidecensus.org/reports/
[5] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/domesticabusevictimcharacteristicsenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2024#age
[6] https://www.forwarduk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sexual-Harassment-in-London-Public-Spaces_Topline-1.pdf
[7] https://milkhoneybees.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/In-HER-Shoes-Milk-Honey-Bees-Report.pdf[1] https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/globalassets/docs-and-resources/research-and-campaigns/girlguiding-research-briefing_girls-experiences-of-sexual-harassment_june2021.pdf
[9] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/iicsa-report-of-the-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse/the-report-of-the-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse-section-1-and-section-2-parts-a-to-j-accessible
[10] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685559d05225e4ed0bf3ce54/National_Audit_on_Group-based_Child_Sexual_Exploitation_and_Abuse.pdf
[11] https://listenupresearch.org/adultification/[1]
[12] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec3ce97a1716758c54691b7/t/6755b28f11a73228ed1403aa/1733669520297/griffins_research_paper_2011.02_executive_summary.pdf
What to do when working with exploitation and harm through violence – Useful Links
Youth justice and adolescent safeguarding – Useful Links
Child First principles – YJB
Child First principles – YJB – Search
Camden Child First YJS’s intervention plan
https://www.liia.london/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/3_month_plan_revised_with_examples.docx
HMIP webinar Camden / Merton
Invitation – Webinar on the New HMIP Inspection Framework 22 September 2025
YJB Resource Hub
Home – Youth Justice Resource Hub
YJB Case Management Guidance
yjb-case-management-guidance-final-feb-2024.pdf
National Standards for Children in the Youth Justice System
Standards for children in the youth justice system – GOV.UK
The Child First Evidence Base – Steve Case, Loughborough University and YJB
Child First Justice: the research evidence-base [Full report]
Young peoples voices in safeguarding – Useful Links
Examples of practice in participation – Useful Links
https://www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk/youthengagement
Partnership for Young London
•https://www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk/
Centre for Youth Voice
https://www.regionalyouthunits.com/centre-for-youth-voice
Amplify
•https://www.regionalyouthunits.com/amplify
Network of Regional Youth Work Units
Workforce development for adolescent safeguarding – Useful Links
Training and Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
That Difficult Age: Developing a more effective response to risks in adolescence
Professional Curiosity
Reflective practice and supervision
https://www.liia.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/29.06.23-Big-Listen-Report.pdf
https://basw.co.uk/policy-and-practice/resources/effective-supervision-social-work-and-social-care
Trauma-informed, relational and restorative practice
RIP Trauma-informed-approaches-with-young-people-Frontline-briefing.pdf
VRU Trauma Informed Research | London City Hall
British Journal of Community Justice Spacey.Beyond-Individual-Trauma.2022.pdf
Racial equity, leadership and psychological safety
https://www.londonsocialworkforchildren.com/news/fbba85a2-b43a-4591-84f8-3543a8f31f3f
DfE Employer Standards Promoting psychological safety
The Link Between Psychological Safety and Safeguarding – Psych Safety
https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/media/d2bpbew1/childrens_practice_briefing_antiracism_web.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/race-racism-and-safeguarding-children
“It’s Silent”: Race, racism and safeguarding children – Panel Briefing 4
The workforce ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children–2
Safer recruitment practice
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-child-protection/safer-recruitment
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-children-and-safer-recruitment-in-education
https://www.nhsemployers.org/recruitment/employment-standards-and-regulation
Peer Assessments – Useful Links
Safeguarding Children Who Move Across Local Authority Boundaries – Useful Links
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