Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership

In July 2024, the decision was made to separate the Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children’s Partnership into two partnerships; one covering the Dorset Council area and the other covering the Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) area.

Each Safeguarding Children Partnership has a statutory responsibility as set out in the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance (2023) for leadership and multi-agency co-ordination of “arrangements to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children”.

The website has been re-structured into sections for each Safeguarding Children Partnership. For information from the Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership please click here. For information from the BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership please click here.

There is some activity that will remain as Pan-Dorset and this includes the multi-agency child safeguarding training offer, our core safeguarding policies and procedures based on national guidance and our child death review process. For information on the Pan-Dorset activity please click here.

Newsletter

Each Safeguarding Children Partnership produces a newsletter, which is a helpful information resource for professionals working with children and young people to be updated on the latest local and national child safeguarding practice reviews, changes to existing policies, procedures and guidance or to be notified around new ones, any Partnership led conferences or events, training commissioned locally and nationally, and much more! We would recommend all professionals working with children and young people working across the Pan-Dorset area sign-up to receive each newsletter.

BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership Newsletter

This newsletter is published quarterly and the next edition is due to be issued in March 2025.

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Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership Newsletter

This newsletter is published monthly.

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Click HERE to view the current and past editions of the Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership Newsletters.

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