Welcome to Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership
The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership, known as the DSCP, supports a wide range of organisations to coordinate Early Help and safeguarding services across County Durham. By working together organisations are better able to identify and respond to the needs of children and young people. The DSCP fulfils a wide range of responsibilities to support safeguarding activity in County Durham, some of these are legal responsibilities and others are local arrangements agreed by the partnership. Find out more about us.
News and Events
- Safeguarding Week 2026: Translating Change into Practice, 16-20 November 2026
Booking is now open From policy to practice. From learning to action. With constant changes in legislation, guidance, procedures, and organisational… Read more: Safeguarding Week 2026: Translating Change into Practice, 16-20 November 2026 - Quality Assurance Framework
The main goal of Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) is to make arrangements to ensure that, at a local level,… Read more: Quality Assurance Framework - New Information Sharing Duty: Strengthening Safeguarding Through Better Information SharingThe new Information Sharing Duty came into effect on 30 September 2026. Where the Information Sharing Duty applies, organisations must… Read more: New Information Sharing Duty: Strengthening Safeguarding Through Better Information Sharing
- DSCP Annual Report 2024/2025The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2024/2025 is now available on our Annual Reports page.