Radical safeguarding: a social justice workbook for safeguarding practitioners

This workbook from RadHR is aimed at practitioners working with children and young people — particularly in schools — who want to rethink conventional safeguarding practice. It frames a "radical" approach as one that traces harms to their structural and cultural root causes, rather than focusing solely on individual incidents. The resource explores the systems and cultures that enable harm, offers models for understanding child safety through a social-justice lens, and provides practical activities to help practitioners develop alternative, resistant safeguarding approaches. It is most directly useful for school-based or youth-sector safeguarding leads looking to move beyond punitive frameworks.