Kilbrandon Lecture 2025
“When common sense is complicated: a call for cultural reform to safeguard children beyond their homes”
Professor Carlene Firmin, University of Durham
Thursday 27th November 2025
Rottenrow, G4 0RA
Registration and refreshments from 5.30pm
Lecture starts 6.00pm
In the 23rd Kilbrandon Lecture, Professor Firmin will reflect on the structural reforms achieved in systems since Contextual Safeguarding was introduced and identify cultural changes still to be realised. She will outline why an ethics of care must be central to how we approach extra-familial harm, focusing our efforts on creating safe contexts and not solely safe individuals; meeting needs, not solely reducing risk; and building our collective capacity, and not just the capacity of parents and carers, to keep young people safe beyond their front doors.
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