Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP)

DSCP Priority Work – Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA) Briefing

The Improvement Delivery Group have now completed the first 5 stages of the learning cycle for Priority One. The Business Unit have created a briefing for practitioners to explain what we have looked and to give some helpful links to resources and guidance. The CAPVA briefing has been uploaded to the website, it is an […]

10/01/2024

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 […]

07/03/2024

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 – Summary of Changes

On 15th 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 […]

07/03/2024