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:
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.”
You can email us: ddscp@derby.gov.uk
We are based at184 Kedleston Road,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.
Working Together to Safeguard Children has been updated to include more detailed accountability for Safeguarding Children Partnerships
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'.
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 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
The first DDSCP Stakeholder Event was held in December 2020 and January 2021 to set out the progress of the partnership.