About CESCP
In Cheshire East, we want to work TOGETHER as a partnership to make children, families and our communities S.A.F.E.R. We are family-focused working with the holistic needs of the family network as a system of support and agent of change. We believe our children are best supported within their families so we work to ensure this can happen safely, so children and young people are free from harm at home and in their local communities. We are flexible in how we offer support and ensure that there is a fair and equitable access for our families.
We will intervene early with evidence-based services to work with our families in engaging with the right support at the right time, empowering them to build on their strengths and achieve success. As a partnership, we will be effective to improve outcomes and impact for our children. We believe in the power of relationships as being one of the key drivers that enables change to happen. In Cheshire East, we want healthy, safe and resilient family networks and community networks to flourish. To achieve this, we are creating a partnership that takes a strengths-based, relational approach to engaging, empowering and supporting our children, families and communities. We value and are respectful of our children, families, communities and practitioners at every level and recognise that a system of high support, high challenge allows consistently good practice to thrive and ensures we are responsive to emerging or evolving needs.
Key Values for the Cheshire East Safeguarding Children's Partnership
All the work within the Partnership will continue to uphold the following core value:
Annual Report
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 introduces a requirement for SCP's to produce and publish an annual report on the effectiveness of safeguarding in the local area.
Working Together to Safeguard Children
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 is the statutory guidance for all organisations and agencies in England that work with children, young people and families. It sets out how safeguarding partners, practitioners and services should work together to help, support and protect children, ensuring a child-centred and multi-agency approach to safeguarding. The 2026 update strengthens expectations around inclusive and anti-discriminatory practice, information sharing, early help, responding to emerging risks, and protecting children from multiple forms of harm, while reinforcing the shared responsibility of all professionals to promote children’s welfare and keep them safe.
All relevant professionals should read and follow this guidance so that they can respond to individual children’s needs appropriately.
Working together to safeguard children - GOV.UK