CSCP Young Advisors
The CSCP has three Young Advisors to advise the safeguarding partnership and Independent scrutineer on young people’s perspective. Our Young Advisors have grown up and live in Camden and have a dual role as Youth Offending Service Peer Advocates, and therefore have an understanding of the lived experiences of local young people.
The Young Advisors support the work of the CSCP by:
- Providing a local young person’s perspective to improve how safeguarding is experienced by children, young people and their families.
- Strengthening our strategic response to contextual safeguarding and transitional safeguarding.
- Scrutinising and helping develop our community engagement with local settings in the borough.
- Co-produce content that shares the voice and lived experience of young people on emerging local safeguarding/wellbeing issues.
Short edits of the film covering different safeguarding themes that impact adolescents can be found here:
In 2023-24, the CSCP and our young advisors worked in partnership to share the CSCP model of involving Young Advisors in our scrutiny activity. The project was led by academics from King’s College London and the University of Bedfordshire in partnership with The Association of Safeguarding Partners (TASP) and Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP), and in collaboration with Family Rights Group (FRG) and the Association of Child Protection Professionals (AoCPP). The report below provides an evaluation of this important piece of research for which Camden Young Advisors helped to facilitate and deliver consultations including hosting national webinars with others like them across the country, to discuss how LSCPs can involve ‘Young Scrutineers’ in the work.
Here are some examples of the work of the CSCP Young Advisors:
