Welcome to Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership
The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership, known as the DSCP, supports a wide range of organisations to coordinate Early Help and safeguarding services across County Durham. By working together organisations are better able to identify and respond to the needs of children and young people. The DSCP fulfils a wide range of responsibilities to support safeguarding activity in County Durham, some of these are legal responsibilities and others are local arrangements agreed by the partnership. Find out more about us.
News and Events
- Private FosteringDurham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) have been working with Durham County Council to launch a new awareness raising campaign for… Read more: Private Fostering
- Priority Two: Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) BriefingThe Improvement Delivery Group have now completed the first five stages of the learning cycle for Priority Two. The Business Unit… Read more: Priority Two: Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) Briefing
- Learning From Practice (Fathers, Male Carers)Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) champions good multi-agency working and supports practitioner learning with examples of cases where practice demonstrates… Read more: Learning From Practice (Fathers, Male Carers)
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023On 15 December 2023, the government published “Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help,… Read more: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023