Safeguarding incidents and/or behaviours can be associated with factors outside the school or college and/or can occur between children outside the school or college.

All staff, especially the designated safeguarding lead should be considering the contest within which such incidents and/or behaviours occur.

This is known as contextual safeguarding, which simply means assessments of children should consider whether wider environmental factors are present in a child’s life that are a threat to their safety and/or welfare.