Latifa Akay - Director of Education at Maslaha

“It was a privilege to co-write and co-produce the Radical Safeguarding Workbook with Alex. I approached Alex with an incredibly broad brief when starting off on the road of exploring what a resource could be to support practitioners to adopt alternative safeguarding approaches that resist the racial profiling, pathologising and harm that much safeguarding practice leads to. Alex approached this process with incredible generosity and imagination from the beginning. We ended up creating a resource that far exceeded what we thought we were setting out to do. This was in large part possible because of flexibility and commitment on Alex’s part to trusting in the process and being open to moving with where the work took us. Alex’s work and analysis was consistently of an excellent standard. Their incisive lens on transformative justice allowed us to create a resource with much practical potential to support practitioners to move towards safeguarding practices that centre the conditions that could materially lead to safety for young people.”