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The purpose of this guidance is to set out a shared understanding and meaning of the whole family approach across the partnership. It is the responsibility of all agencies to ensure that the working and including families is central to everything we do within our daily practice. Problems can arise… Read more: Whole Family Approach Guidance

The Multi-Agency Reflective Supervision Guidance Document has been development as recent audits and improvement work tells us that the recommended multi-agency reflective supervisions aren’t taking place and there isn’t an avenue for practitioners to reflect as a multi-agency team especially in the most complex and challenging of cases where practitioners… Read more: Multi-Agency Reflective Supervision Guidance

It is only through sharing information that agencies or organisations and practitioners build a richer picture of the day-to-day life of the child and family they are working with. The DSCP have developed an Information Sharing Agreement to provide a framework to share information to safeguard children and young people,… Read more: Information Sharing: Harm Outside of the Home

Sharing information could change a child’s life; if you think a child is at risk, you can share information to protect them from harm and to provide the right help at the right time which allows us to safeguard children and provide support at an early stage. It is not… Read more: Information Sharing – How we share information in Durham