Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Helping to keep children and young people safe in Derby and Derbyshire
Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Welcome to the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (DDSCP) Website.
Derby City Council, Derbyshire County Council, Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board and Derbyshire Constabulary (the statutory partners) work in partnership with relevant agencies such as health providers, schools and education settings, probation providers and others to challenge and hold each other to account as to how they are keeping children safe.
The purpose of local arrangements is to support and enable organisations and agencies across Derby and Derbyshire to work together to ensure that:
- children are safe and their health and welfare is promoted;
- children experience effective care and support;
- children are enabled to achieve the best outcomes;
- there is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threats across the area;
- learning is promoted and embedded in a way that local services can become more reflective and implement changes to practice identified as positive for children and families;
- information is shared effectively to facilitate more accurate and timely decision making for children and families.
Strong leadership will be critical for the new arrangements to be effective in bringing together the range of organisations and agencies within the partnership. An Independent Chair and Scrutineer will provide ongoing scrutiny of the work of the statutory safeguarding partners across Derby and Derbyshire who have equal and joint responsibility for local safeguarding arrangements.
The Independent Chair and Scrutineer for the Partnership, Steve Atkinson, commented: “Keeping children safe and enabling them to live fulfilling lives is an obligation and a duty for everyone. Children are at the heart of the work of this Partnership and I welcome the commitment being shown by all Partners, statutory and non-statutory, to challenge each other to ensure that the lives of all children in Derby and Derbyshire happy and safe.”
Information provided on this site
- Important advice if you are Worried about a child or young person
- Information about the work of the DDSCP including its its subgroups and annual reports
- Published Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- Access to the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Procedures
- Online training courses provided as part of the DDSCP Training Programme
- Support and advice to help children and young people
Contact us
You can email us: ddscp@derby.gov.uk
We are based at184 Kedleston Road,Derby,
DE22 1GT Our postal address isDerby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership,The Council House,Corporation Street,Derby,DE1 2FS Find us on Google Maps
Latest News
Safeguarding guide for tradespeople visiting homes
Tradespeople visiting homes can sometimes see things that worry them about the safety of children or adults. A new guide is published to help tradespeople feel reassured about steps they can take to help keep our communities safer.
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
Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership includes:
