Return Home Interviews and Safety
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The document discusses the importance of safety planning for young people, especially those who may be at risk or have gone missing. It emphasizes the need for tailored, realistic strategies that empower the youth and involve open discussions about their safety without assuming prior knowledge. Practical guidance and resources are provided for professionals to engage effectively with young individuals regarding their safety concerns.
Return Home Interviews and Safety
- 1. Return Home Interviews and Safety Victoria Cousins – Senior Programme and Development Manager
- 2. Safety ‘Unless safety is in place young people will continually revert to pre-existing defensive, risk taking and negative protective strategies’ (AVA/WAGN 2012) • Young people who go missing are often ‘off the radar’ • We may not get any information or intelligence • A young person doesn’t have to tell you what is happening to discuss safety • Window of opportunity.
- 3. Safety planning Principles Never assume you know what is best Recognise existing safety strategies being used Discuss strategies currently used: which are effective and helpful and which ones could be adapted Responsibility for abuse explicitly with the perpetrator Don’t suggest strategies that colludes with the abuse Examine your values before you respond
- 4. Safety Plans Actions that young people can take (themselves or with additional support) Realistic actions easily implemented, and tailored to individual capacity and circumstances Led by the young person – they may not be telling you what is happening An ongoing discussion that responds to changes in risk
- 9. Safety Plans – Who Can help You? Brother Aunty Who Can Help You?
- 10. Points for discussion • Do you know if safety discussions are occurring? • Do you know if information is fed back to professional networks? • Do you know if information is acted upon? • Are you content that the values of practitioners do not get in the way of a child’s opportunity to speak out. If you’ve answered no to any of the above, what has to happen?
- 11. Further reading and guidance Guidance: London Councils: http://www.londoncp.co.uk/chapters/B_contents.html Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board: http://lincolnshirescb.proceduresonline.com/chapters/pr_joint_miss.html DfE: Statutory Guidance for young people who go missing. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208 528/Statutory_guidance_on_children_who_run_away_or_go_missing_from_home_o r_care_consultation_-_final.pdf Safety Plans: CAADA: http://www.caada.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/YP_safetyplan.pdf http://www.safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Young%20People%20practic e%20briefing%20for%20IDVAs%20FINAL.pdf https://www.atl.org.uk/Images/guidance-and-safety-plan-for-young-people-nov- 13.pdf https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF- 8#q=safety%20planning%20young%20people