This project is concerned with safeguarding policies and practices and how traditional approaches to safeguarding are not preventative, but require harm to be experiential before interventions occur.

Researchers collaborating in this project are invited to explore ways to illuminate how current safeguarding policies and practices are: (1) not preventative but require harm to occur before interventions happen to reduce or eliminate the harm. (2) conceptualise spaces where young people have been harmed in the past, besides in familial settings; and (3) reconceptualise how safeguarding could be more preventative and (4) develop modes of educational practice to enhance preventative approaches.

Project aims to understand what is required to develop more effective safeguarding policies and practices by considering serious case reviews and inquiries. Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 NSPCC library catalogue Clive Sheldon Report - QC’s independent report into allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse in football; IICSA: Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Within this project you will work have the opportunity to develop Community Engagement, in local sports clubs and community organisations.

Sustainable Development Goals

SDGs: 3 Good Health and Wellbeing, 4 Quality Education; 5 Gender Equality; and 16: Peace Justice and Strong Institutions.

Academic Director

Joy Cranham, Department of Education

Who can apply?

This VIP welcomes applications from all University of Bath students.

Applications for Semester 1 AY2526 will open in June 2025.

Project Updates

This is a new project for AY2526