DCFP name change to Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership

As of 5 September 2023, the Partnership has changed its name from Devon Children and Families Partnership (DCFP) to the Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership (Devon SCP).

This name change reflects a re-focus of the Partnership to place stronger emphasis on safeguarding and child protection – the Partnership previously held a much broader scope of delivering the Children and Young People’s Plan 2019-2023.

The move is designed to reduce the risk of duplication and make more efficient use of resources for the statutory partners. Additionally, the shift in function means that the Devon SCP will more closely align with the other regional safeguarding children’s partnerships in Torbay, Plymouth, Cornwall and Somerset.

The priorities of the Devon SCP are:

• Improving outcomes of pre-birth services and for infants
• Improving partnership working in compliance with Working Together, focusing on areas of shared responsibility and multi-agency responses to families
• Improving response to adolescent need through developing multi-agency contextual safeguarding approaches
• Improving the partnership response to domestic abuse to prevent harm to children.

Devon SCP have set up redirects so that any existing links pointing to the old dcfp.org.uk address should automatically redirect users to the new domain – please let the Devon SCP know if you find any instances where this is not the case.

Devon SCP will be updating this site in due course, for the time being it will look and work exactly the same as before.