Safeguarding Young People

Dez Holmes is the Director of Research in Practice, and champions evidence-informed practice across the children's and adults social care sector in order to improve the lives of children, young people, adults, and their families and carers. Her particular interests include adolescent and transitional safeguarding and participatory practice. She is series editor of the JKP Knowledge in Practice series

• 1.IntroductionDez Holmes2.Our Voice, Our Experience Whitney Clark and Marley Hall (with Dez Holmes)3.Understanding the age of adolescence John Coleman and Ann Hagell4.Growing pains: Developing safeguarding responses to adolescent harmHelen Beckett and Jenny Lloyd5.Young people negotiating intra and extra-familial harm and safety: social and holistic approachesLauren Wroe with Jenny Pearce6.The Myth of the Universal ChildJahnine Davis and Nick Marsh7.Has the purpose outgrown the design?Carlene Firmin and Rachel Knowles 8.Learning to love and trust again: a relational approach to developmental traumaKristi Hickle and Michelle Lefevre 9.Nothing about me without meNicky Hill and Camille Warrington10.Transitional Safeguarding: Bridging the gap between children's and adults' safeguarding responsesChristine Cocker, Adi Cooper & Dez Holmes11. Concluding thoughtsDez Holmes

Safeguarding Young People: Risk, Rights, Resilience and Relationships provides some critical tools to challenge practitioners and policy makers to be curious about the lived experiences of young people exposed to intra-familial and extra-familial risks and harm. It brings together leading scholars, researchers and experts by experience, to interrogate the impact of structural inequalities for understanding young people's experiences of harm. Comprehensive and insistent, this collection is essential reading for all those working in child welfare and safeguarding.