This rapid review was conducted in January 2024 following a serious incident notification being made in response to the death of a young baby. The review document includes the safeguarding concerns and incident, what’s worked well, learning from practice and what the DSCP is doing.
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Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 – Summary of Changes
On 15 December 2023, the government published “Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children”.
This statutory guidance sets out what organisations and agencies who have functions relating to children must and should do to help, protect and promote the welfare of all children and young people under the age of 18 in England. The 2023 edition replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
A summary of changes is now available at Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 (durham-scp.org.uk)
Private Fostering
Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) have been working with Durham County Council to launch a new awareness raising campaign for Private Fostering.
- Private fostering is an arrangement that occurs when a child under the age of 16 (or 18 if disabled) is cared for by someone other than their parent or a close relative for 28 consecutive days or more. A close relative is a grandparent, sibling, uncle or aunt or a step-parent.
Please help support us in raising awareness about Private Fostering by downloading and sharing digitally, or download/print and share at venues in your own community:
Priority Two: Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) Briefing
The Improvement Delivery Group have now completed the first five stages of the learning cycle for Priority Two. The Business Unit have created a briefing for practitioners to explain what we have looked at and to give some helpful links to resources and guidance. It is an A3 document designed to be taken into team meetings, supervisions or to be used by practitioners to help them to understand what HOTH is, the early warning indicators and what you can do.
DSCP Priority Two – Harm Outside The Home (HOTH) Briefing.pdf
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 positive multi agency practice.
In October 2023 the DSCP completed a number of observations of Child Protection Conferences. The example in this learning briefing identifies that the professionals demonstrated good practice by involving both parents throughout the process for the child. There were a number of interventions within this family however this briefing is related specifically to father/male carer inclusive practice.
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023
On 15 December 2023, the government published “Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children”.
This statutory guidance sets out what organisations and agencies who have functions relating to children must and should do to help, protect and promote the welfare of all children and young people under the age of 18 in England. The 2023 edition replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
View Gov.uk: Working together to safeguard children for a copy of the statutory guidance, summary of changes and statutory framework documents.
View Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 – Summary of Changes.pdf.
This new edition of Working together is central to delivering on the strategy set out in Stable homes, built on love (2023) which outlines the Government’s commitment to support every child to grow up in a safe, stable and loving home.