Collaborative Use
The map can be completed with family, child, network, and professional perspectives, while the practitioner controls the formal case map and keeps contributions attributable.
Signs of Safety Assessment and Planning Map for child safety formulation
The Signs of Safety Assessment and Planning Map is a structured child safety formulation tool for practitioners working with family, child, network, and professional perspectives. It helps practitioners organize worries, strengths, existing safety, complicating factors, and direction for change so safety planning can be grounded in a shared case understanding.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Shows
The map shows worries, strengths, existing safety, complicating factors, and direction for change within the defined framework structure.
History and Updates
When new evidence changes the formulation, the current map can be updated while decision-relevant prior snapshots are preserved.
Does this tool decide whether a child is safe?
No. It organizes case information for practitioner formulation and review, but it does not make automated safety decisions or assign risk levels.
Can conflicting perspectives be recorded?
Yes. Conflicting perspectives should remain as distinct attributed entries rather than being merged automatically.
Is this the same as a generic risk assessment builder?
No. It preserves the Signs of Safety map structure and does not create unsupported categories or generic assessment prompts.
What happens if some perspectives are missing?
The map can remain draft or partial, and missing perspectives are flagged rather than invented.