Transitional Safeguarding

Christine Cocker is Professor of Social Work and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia. She is a qualified social worker with over 30 years experience working with children and families. She is an independent member of a permanence panel and the independent chair of the London Borough of Haringey Children’s Academy. Dez Holmes is the Director of Research in Practice which supports those who work with children, families, and adults to use evidence in their practice and leadership. Her practice background is largely within youth justice and early help. She chairs the Contextual Safeguarding UK advisory group. Adi Cooper is a qualified social worker and former Director of Adult Social Services. She was awarded the OBE in 2015 for services to adult social care and adult safeguarding.

Foreword by Rebekah Pierre
Introduction
Part 1: Making the Case for Change
1. What do Care-Experienced Young People Say? With Desemme Jones, Jodie Kudzewicz, Sean Robertson, Louis Fearnehough, and Dez Holmes (supported by Rosie Blackett)
2. The Challenge of Safeguarding Binaries
3. Negotiating Legal and Social Policy Frameworks
4. Emerging Adulthood as a Developmental Stage
Part 2: Learning from Current Practices
5. Learning from Safeguarding Children and Beyond
6. Learning from Safeguarding Adults for Transitional Safeguarding Practice
7. Transitional Safeguarding and Transitions
Part 3: Innovations
8. Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Serious Case Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews about Care-Experienced Young People
Part 3: Innovations
9. Innovations in Transitional Safeguarding
10. Transitional Safeguarding as Whole Systems Change
Conclusion: Moving Forward