Keeping Myself Safe Toolkit

This guide is intended as a tool for practitioners and managers to support the process of developing effective relationships with vulnerable young people to help them keep themselves safe. The guide highlights the qualities and skills identified by young people that staff, and the organisations that employ those staff, need to display to be most effective in promoting resilience in young people so that they are able to manage their own risk. 

By presenting the views of young people and highlighting the value of sustained professional relationships, this research contributes to the debate around ‘what is care for?’ By looking at the value of professional relationships in relation to building resilience and managing risk with young people in the care system a clear gap in the evidence base is addressed. 

What’s in the keeping myself safe practitioners toolkit?

• what young people say they want to help them stay safe
• the qualities of practitioners that enable them to support young people to stay safe
• the skills required by practitioners that enable them to support young people to stay safe
• the underpinning knowledge and support needed to work with young people and keep them safe

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