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As of today, 1 April 2025, Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership has been replaced by new Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements:
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Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership will cover the footprint of Cumberland Council
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Westmorland and Furness Safeguarding Children Partnership will cover the footprint of Westmorland and Furness Council
These local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements have been implemented in line with the requirements outlined in the statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children.
Both partnerships will publish their multi-agency safeguarding arrangements today, 1 April 2025, on the current CSCP website.
The purpose of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements is to ensure that, at a local level, organisations and agencies are clear about how they will work together to safeguard children and promote their welfare. This means:
- There is a clear, shared vision for how to improve outcomes for children locally across all levels of need and all types of harm.
- When a child is identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm there is a prompt, appropriate and effective response to ensure the protection and support of the child.
- Organisations and agencies are challenged appropriately, effectively holding one another to account.
- The voice of children and families, combined with the knowledge of experienced practitioners and insights from data, provides a greater understanding of the areas of strength and/or improvement within arrangements and practice.
- Information is sought, analysed, shared, and broken down by protected characteristics to facilitate more accurate and timely decision-making for children and families, and to understand outcomes for different communities of children.
- Effective collection, sharing and analysis of data, enables early identification of new safeguarding risks, issues, emerging threats, and joined-up responses across relevant agencies.
- Senior leaders promote and embed a learning culture which supports local services to become more reflective and implement changes to practice.
- Senior leaders have a good knowledge and understanding about the quality of local practice and its impact on children and families.
What does this mean for me and my organisation?
Training
Training will continue to be accessed via the Learning Zone: https://cumbriasafeguardingchildren.co.uk/learning-zone-0
Policy and Procedures
All practitioners in Cumbria will continue to follow the current Pan-Cumbria procedures and access them via the Cumbria manual: https://cumbriascp.trixonline.co.uk/
We are currently reviewing all policies and procedures and each partnership will launch new manuals in early 2026.
Concerns about a Child
The process will remain the same and information on each local authority’s process is here: https://cumbriasafeguardingchildren.co.uk/report-concern-about-child
Early/Family Help
The process will remain the same and information on Early/Family Help is here: https://cumbriasafeguardingchildren.co.uk/early-help
Practitioner Forums
We will continue to run the Practitioner Forums in the current format, whilst each partnership reviews how they engage with practitioners in their area.
Access to Website
We will continue to share the current Cumbria website for a number of months, whilst both partnerships develop new websites.
Partnership Comms, Newsletters and 5 Minute Briefings
For an initial 3 month period, comms will continue to be published via the CSCP mailing list.
In the meantime, we encourage you to sign up for the new mailing list for your respective safeguarding partnership. For some professionals it may be relevant for you to sign up to both.
To sign up to these mailing lists please click on the links below.
Cumberland: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKCUMBERLAND/subscriber/new?topic_id=UKCUMBERLAND_112
Westmorland and Furness: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKWFC/subscriber/new?topic_id=UKWFC_84
Any questions:
If you are a professional working in Cumberland, please contact: CSCP@cumbria.gov.uk
If you are a professional working in Westmorland and Furness, please contact: WFSCP@cumbria.gov.uk
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