This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people aged 15-24 who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results. Addressing the gaps in the current system, it outlines how the specific needs of young people can be met through this approach. Written by leading experts in this area with strong practice networks, it presents up-to-date evidence for its effectiveness, and also uses examples from practice to illustrate the ways in which services are beginning to address these issues.This book sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to safeguarding that is designed to address the needs of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties, who often fall between gaps in existing binary children and adult safeguarding systems, with devastating results. By working across the current binary safeguarding systems, this book explores how the specific needs of young people can be met by adopting an approach to safeguarding young people that is relational, contextual, developmental, evidence-informed, participative and uses an equalities, equity, diversity and inclusion lens. Written by leading experts in this area with strong practice networks, it presents up-to-date evidence that supports the need to change current approaches, using examples from practice to illustrate the ways in which local services are beginning to apply the concept of Transitional Safeguarding.