‌Accountability

The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership gathers information to know how well agencies are working together to keep children safe and understand the experiences of children and young people living throughout Derby and Derbyshire.

The DDSCP uses the information it obtains to:

• Report annually to the organisations, that provide services or fund new or existing ones, how well children and young people are being kept safe and where services need to be focused to help children and young people the most.
• Report to individual agencies on what needs to be done to improve how children and young people are being kept safe through the work they do.

The DDSCP publishes an overview of the information provided by the work of the subgroups on an annual basis and this includes the main tasks identified for the following year.

DDSCP Annual Report

2023-2024

The DDSCP Annual Report - 2023 to 2024 sets out the progress made to keep children safe in Derby and Derbyshire

2022-2023

The DDSCP annual report - 2022 to 2023 sets out the progress made to keep children safe in Derby and Derbyshire

This document is not fully accessible. If you need it in an accessible format, please contact ddscp@derby.gov.uk.

2021-2022

The DDSCP Annual Report 2021 to 2022 sets out the progress made to keep children safe in Derby and Derbyshire

2019-2021

The DDSCP Annual Report 2019 - 2021 sets out the progress being made to keep children safe during the first 18 months following implementation of the new safeguarding arrangements across Derby and Derbyshire

DDSCP Business Plan

The DDSCP uses analysis of local information alongside national guidance to identify the priority areas for action to be taken to safeguard children across Derby and Derbyshire.

The DDSCP Business Plan 2025 - 2028 sets out the priority areas for delivery by the subgroups and partner agencies.

The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Partnership vision is that all agencies work together to keep children and young people safe, you can read more about this here.

Governance

The DDSCP has Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements for the Safeguarding Partners to work together to identify and respond to the needs of children in their area.

An inter-agency Governance and Accountability Framework is in place and is an agreement that has been signed by each of the statutory partners to set out the legal arrangements to ensure there is effective governance and decision making.

DDSCP Governance Arrangements March 2025

DDSCP Governance Arrangements Terms of Reference for Subgroups March 2025  (under review)

Freedom of Information

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides the public with a general right of access to information held by public bodies, such as local government, the police, the NHS and state schools.

Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (DDSCP) is a statutory partnership in its own right set up under the Children Act 2004 and is not a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act. It is therefore exempt from the duty to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act.

A Freedom of Information Act request may be made directly to partner agencies of the DDSCP.