Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Helping to keep children and young people safe in Derby and Derbyshire
There is now a google translate facility on the website which can be accessed via the site menu (languages) at the bottom of this page. Most community languages in Derby are included but unfortunately, google has not included Romanese as one of it's languages. Many pdf documents will also translate so long as the document is not too heavy. We hope that staff, volunteers and families find this facility useful.
Publication of new national guidance
The updated national guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 now sets out greater emphasis for safeguarding children partnerships to strengthen multi-agency arrangements. The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership welcomes the updates that include:
- principles for working with parents and carers that centre the importance of building positive, trusting and co-operative relationships to deliver tailored support to families
- expectations for multi-agency working that apply to all individuals, agencies and organisations working with children and their families, across a range of roles and activities
- new national multi-agency child protection standards that set out actions, considerations and behaviours for improved child protection practice and better outcomes for children
The DDSCP is working with partner agencies to review and update arrangements across Derby and Derbyshire
Publication of local Child Safeguarding Practice Review
The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership publishes the local Child Safeguarding Practice Review for Theo, which as an anonymised name chosen for them.
A summary of progress made by agencies is published along with the report. This sets out changes that have been made to implement local improvements that were identified during the process of completing the review.
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Publication of local Child Safeguarding Practice Review
The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership publishes the local Child Safeguarding Practice Review for Theo along with a summary of progress made by agencies to implement local improvement to our safeguarding arrangements.
Publication of new national guidance
Working Together to Safeguard Children has been updated to include more detailed accountability for Safeguarding Children Partnerships
Safer Internet Day - 7 February 2023
Safer Internet Day is an annual event organised by UK Safer Internet Centre, featuring a different theme each year to educate internet users about. The 2023 theme is 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online'.
Aston Hall - Investigation of historical abuse
Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board brought together a number of partner agencies from health and social care to support a police investigation of reports of historical physical and sexual abuse of children which took place at Aston Hall Hospital between the 1950s and 1970s.
Three Steps to Baby Safety Conference
Three Steps to Baby Safety Conference took place on Friday 2nd July 2021 and was the first DDSCP Stakeholder Conference to focus on the learning from Children Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs) regarding babies
The first DDSCP Stakeholder Event
The first DDSCP Stakeholder Event was held in December 2020 and January 2021 to set out the progress of the partnership.
Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership includes:
