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Prof. Carlene Firmin

@carlenefirmin.bsky.social
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Prof of Social Work, Durham University Founder, Contextual Safeguarding

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We’re delighted to get Day 1 of our annual conference underway with Professor @carlenefirmin.bsky.social speaking on the realities of safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm
Professor Carlene Firmin delivering a keynote address at the Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice conference
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CYCJ @cycjscotland.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We’re delighted to hear next from @carlenefirmin.bsky.social who will be guiding us through Scotland’s road to contextual safeguarding - a concept that involves targeting the social conditions where harm occurs. Thank you to Carlene for delivering this year’s Day 1 keynote address. #YJConf25
Professor Carlene Firmin standing at a lectern
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A brilliant morning in Manchester
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British Association of Social Workers @basw-uk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📢 The British Journal of Social Work Appoints New Co-editors! Congratulations to @carlenefirmin.bsky.social and @stkong.bsky.social who will officially start in their new role as co-editors on 1 July 2025. Find out more 🔗 new.basw.co.uk/articles/bri...
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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We’re delighted to share our conference programme. As well as @carlenefirmin.bsky.social & Darren McGarvey keynotes, the event includes sessions on gender-based violence, neighbourhood policing, diversion, and lots more! 📅 9-10 Sept 25 📍 Leeds Register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...
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Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Really looking forward to this
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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 21/03/2025
This week, he launched our "Safe" podcast with @carlenefirmin.bsky.social, diving deep into contextual safeguarding and how we can better protect young people. Listen now: youtu.be/7wJw9CyIzNI?...
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Carlene Firmin: Contextual Safeguarding is Common Sense | Safe E1
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Nerys Anthony @nerys-a.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@youthendowmentfund.org.uk conf today with @nickcookuk.bsky.social Enjoyed hearing @carlenefirmin.bsky.social calling for absolute focus on the needs of the child (not the system) & DCS Greenwich (&TCS Trustee) Florence Kroll on the role of kindness & humility in leadership Lots to reflect on!
Two photos in a collage - one photo of a screen and says Leading Effective MultiAgency Partnerships to Support Children At Risk of Violence and the second photo is professor Carlene Firmin standing at a lectern speaking to an audience
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Luke Billingham @lbilli91.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 Against Youth Violence, the book me and Keir Irwin-Rogers published in 2022, is now fully open access! 📢 Link here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book... Contents list in image. You can download chapter by chapter, or the whole thing. Please share!
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CYCJ @cycjscotland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 Registration for the Youth Justice Conference 2025 is now open! 📆 11 and 12 June, 2025, Stirling Court Hotel Book your place: lnkd.in/e97DbNcW Our theme is ‘Childhood, Safeguarding and the Children’s Hearing System’ and keynote speakers are @carlenefirmin.bsky.social and Dr Grace Robinson
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Nikki Rutter @rutternik.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Really enjoyed writing this article with @carlenefirmin.bsky.social Kate O'brien, Rachael Owens and Donna Garvey on the systemic problems with child welfare systems, problematising mothers, no matter how 'good' they are.
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Aidan Worsley @aidanworsley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We're live! The call for abstracts is now open for the JUSWA conference June 26-27 2025 at UCLan in Preston, UK. For everyone interested in social work research. Its titled: Shaping Our Future: Proactive messages from social work practice, education and research
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Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️ @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Another article now out- #actionresearch methods. Pls share. Feeling well, feeling cared for? Using participatory and arts-engaged research to improve understanding and professional responses to the mental health needs of care-experienced young people www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Feeling well, feeling cared for? Using participatory and arts-engaged research to improve understanding and professional responses to the mental health needs of care-experienced young people
Care-experienced young people face significant levels of mental distress yet the nature and lived reality of this is poorly understood and undermines the degree to which professional caregivers can...
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Dr Roma Thomas @romajt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Looking forward to reading this - great that it’s open access too.
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year, new article.... one that will shape my work for years to come. Using a 3 year ethnography @michellelefevre.bsky.social @klanghoff.bsky.social Gillian Ruch & I draw a line in the sand & call for foundational reform in responses to extra-familial harm academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance... 🧵
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A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms
This article presents representative accounts from efforts in six social care departments in the UK to use innovation to improve their responses to young p
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Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
No ambulance available to take a black child to hospital for urgent mental health assessment and care. Police given task instead. Two police officers assault child. www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Two Met Police officers convicted for assaulting 16-year-old Black boy - Voice Online
PC Gonen is suspended and PC Price remains on restricted duties. Both officers will be sentenced on 24 January
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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I haven’t really joined in on here yet! But myself and the wonderful Steve Crossley have just wrapped up this terms Abolitionist seminar series 💥 for the Communities and Social Justice research group at Durham Sociology - and it was great! For those of us working in practice reform - a must!
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Finally got around to reading this Child of the North report and welcome multiple recommendations around both a #ContextualSafeguarding approach in general & specifically Risk Outside of the Home (ROTH) child protection processes More calls to meeting need as paramount for providing protection
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Michelle McManus @michellemcmanus.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great paper and thread by @carlenefirmin.bsky.social the absolute expert in navigating the complexities of responding to extra-familial harm. ⬇️
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This year I've thought a lot about the ethics of social work responses to extra-familial harm I outline some of these thoughts in my latest paper on Risk Outside of the Home Child Protection pathways available for free via this link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In it I argue that🧵
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Binaries and Blurred Lines: The Ethical Stress of Child Protection Social Work in the Grey of Extra-Familial Harm
Social care responses to extra-familial harm require social workers to work across the binaries of welfare and justice, victim and perpetrator, parent and professional, risk and protection. This pa...
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Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
FINAL CHANCE TO BOOK: forms.office.com/e/83HJXnzzQq Learning Event on Risk Outside of the Home (ROTH) Child Protection Pathways, by researchers and local areas piloting the approach. 10.12.24 12:00 - 14:00 We have secured a zoom licence that allows more attendees. Booking closes 03.12.24, 5pm.
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