Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership

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.

Safeguarding guide for tradespeople visiting homes

Tradespeople including heating, plumbing / cooling engineers, builders, or painters and decorators can play a vital role in keeping children and adults safe from harm and abuse.

Workers who enter homes to carry out their work, may well be in a position to notice and report signs of neglect, exploitation and abuse.

The Safeguarding guide for tradespeople visiting homes sets out what might raise a concern and what to do about it.

Keeping our community safe is everybody’s business.