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
- New Information Sharing Duty: Strengthening Safeguarding Through Better Information Sharing
The new Information Sharing Duty came into effect on 30 September 2026. Where the Information Sharing Duty applies, organisations must… Read more: New Information Sharing Duty: Strengthening Safeguarding Through Better Information Sharing - Save The Date – Safeguarding Week 2026
The theme of this year’s Safeguarding Week is: Translating Change into Practice From policy to practice. From learning to action.… Read more: Save The Date – Safeguarding Week 2026 - DSCP Annual Report 2024/2025The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2024/2025 is now available on our Annual Reports page.
- DSCP Annual Report 2023/2024
The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2023/2024 is now available on our Annual Reports page.