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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… Read more: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 – Summary of Changes

Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) have been working with Durham County Council to launch a new awareness raising campaign for Private Fostering. 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:

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… Read more: Priority Two: Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) Briefing

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… Read more: Learning From Practice (Fathers, Male Carers)