Partnership Briefings

Darlington Safeguarding Partnership provides learning briefings based on the findings from reviews undertaken by the Partnership.  The briefings share the key messages and learning identified through the reviews and are to help support those practitioners working across child and adult services.

DSP Pledge

In January 2024, the Partnership launched its Pledge to enable practitioners to be confident in having open and honest conversations with each other as multi-agency partners. DSP Pledge [PDF Document]

Child Briefings

Safe Sleeping Practitioner Briefing

February 2025

To help raise awareness of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) Prevention, the Partnership has published a practitioner briefing which provides safe sleeping advice and key messages on smoking, alcohol and cannabis use. This follows a number of local and national reviews which have highlighted the need to raise practitioner awareness of the risks posed to babies to enable them to reinforce the messages with the families they are working with.

Safe Sleeping Messages/SUDI Prevention Practitioner Briefing [PDF Document]

Children's Front Door Service

October 2024 

One Minute Guide to Children's Front Door Service [PDF Document]

Family H LCSPR

March 2024 - The Partnership published a number of briefing documents based on the findings/Learning in the Family H LCSPR.

Family H - 7 minute briefing on the findings from the Review [PDF Document]

Sexual harm in the family environment briefing [PDF Document]

Unseen Adults and Safeguarding Children briefing [PDF Document]

Safeguarding Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) [PDF Document]

Information Sharing Briefing [PDF Document]

Professional Curiosity Briefing [PDF Document]

Family H LCSPR Presentation [Powerpoint]

Parental Mental Health and Safeguarding

April 2023Parental Mental Health and Safeguarding Briefing

Child Exploitation

October 2023Child Exploitation Briefing

Awareness Briefing Documents

January 2024Serious Incident Notification & Rapid Review Briefing 

June 2023Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review Briefing [PDF Document]

December 2020 - Thematic Briefing on reviews and audits undertaken over 4 year period - key themes Neglect, Self Neglect, Communication and Information Sharing, Voice of child/adult. Engagement, Family Circumstances and Professional Responsibility

January 2020 - Serious Case Review (SCR) Child F Briefing 

Adult Briefings

Philip and Loraine Learning Lessons Review Practitioner Briefing

February 2025

The partnership has published a Practitioner Briefing to share the learning from the Philip and Loraine Learning Lessons Review undertaken in 2024. 

Philip and Loraine Learning Lessons Review Practitioner Briefing [PDF Document]

Adult Self Neglect

June 2023

The Partnership published a briefing on self-neglect following two Learning Lessons reviews undertaken in 2022, following the deaths of two individuals and self neglect was highlighted as an issue.

Adult Self Neglect Briefing [PDF Document]

Awareness Briefing Documents

June 2023 

Safeguarding Adult Review Briefing [PDF Document]

December 2020  

Thematic Briefing on reviews and audits undertaken over 4 year period - key themes Neglect, Self Neglect, Communication and Information Sharing, Voice of child/adult. Engagement, Family Circumstances and Professional Responsibility