Join us at the Launch Event for ‘The Shape of Safety’, a guide to reimagining safety and safeguarding alongside young people.
What do we do when safeguarding makes people less safe? What does safety really mean for young people?
NSUN and Act Build Change recently published The Shape of Safety: a guide to reimagining safety and safeguarding alongside young people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. You can find the guide here: https://www.nsun.org.uk/resource/the-shape-of-safety-2024/
Created in collaboration with user-led young peoples’ organisations Revoke and Voice Collective, this project is the result of a series of workshops centering young people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma, who have been failed and disempowered by safeguarding systems. Taking a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive approach, the guide shares and celebrates methods of fostering cultures of safety and care for young people that have been effective. The guide centres lived experience and young peoples’ agency in offering principles for better practice, reflective questions and a practitioner’s checklist to support organisational change.
You’re invited to join NSUN, Act Build Change, Revoke and Voice Collective to hear about what we learned during this project, and to discuss how to take radical safeguarding approaches within your own work.