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
- Save The Date – Safeguarding Week 2026
The theme of this year’s Safeguarding Week is: Translating Change into Practice From policy to practice. From learning to action.… Read more: Save The Date – Safeguarding Week 2026 - Information Sharing Duty – coming soon
The Information Sharing Duty will be implemented from 30 September 2026. The content and information which is available at How… Read more: Information Sharing Duty – coming soon - DSCP Annual Report 2024/2025The Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2024/2025 is now available on our Annual Reports page.
- Information sharing: Harm Outside of the Home (HOTH)It is only through sharing information that agencies or organisations and practitioners build a richer picture of the day-to-day life… Read more: Information sharing: Harm Outside of the Home (HOTH)