Who We Are & What We Do

The North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership are excited to share our new Being Young in North Yorkshire Strategy 2025-2028. This strategy forms the strong roots of all the work that takes place across the Partnership in order to ensure children are happy, healthy, safe and achieving.

You will see from the strategy that our four main priorities have stayed the same, we want children to be HAPPY in their homes and in their communities, we want them to live HEALTHY and long lives, we need them to be SAFE and to know safe people they can talk to and we have high expectations for all our children so they can ACHIEVE their goals.  

You can view a flipbook version here: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/de0b27d128.html

You can view the PDF version here: https://safeguardingchildren.co.uk/Resources/being-young-in-north-yorkshire/

The strategy focuses on definition, prevention, early intervention, and ensuring a consistent and effective response across North Yorkshire. This joint approach ensures that our efforts are coordinated that we are working together to achieve the best possible outcomes for children
and young people.
View the full strategy here: Sexualised Behaviours in Children Strategy 2024 – 27

NYSCP’s vision for the MACE and Contextual Safeguarding arrangements is that:
“All children in North Yorkshire who are being exploited and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse are effectively identified and protected by services which are delivered in a coordinated and informed way that consistently responds to the harm and risks and improves the outcomes for our children, their families and the wider community”
The strategy sets out our four priorities to tackle child exploitation in North Yorkshire
-Prepare
-Prevent
-Protect
-Pursue

View the full strategy here: NYSCP

Launched in 2019 is the new Early Help strategy for North Yorkshire, in the strategy’s foreword Stuart Carlton (Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Service), Scott Bisset (T/Assistant Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police) and Michelle Carrington (Director of Nursing, North Yorkshire Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership):

We are delighted to introduce the new Early Help strategy for North Yorkshire. It is the embodiment of our joint will as Partners to ensure that we work in the most effective, co-ordinated way as early as possible when children and families need our joint support and help. This strategy ensures the effective delivery of the key principles defined in Working Together to Safeguard Children which we all, as partners have a statutory responsibility to co-operate with and contribute to.

The strategy is just the beginning. We will need to work with partners to introduce and embed the framework, develop skills and knowledge in our workforce, and ensure practitioners are confident with the approach. I have no doubt that we will grow this slowly and considerably over time. At the heart of the strategy is a well-known practice model used throughout North Yorkshire already, so it will feel familiar to many partners. It builds on families’ strengths, keeps language simple, and is clear about goals and progress. This means we do things with children and families, not to them, whilst using the family and wider network of friends and others to develop and support plans.

The right support at the right time and place is our joint ambition. We want partners and practitioners to feel well supported, knowledgeable and able to meet the needs of children and families as early as possible.

We know this will take time, but it is the right thing to do.

View and download the Early Help Strategy:


Additional supporting documents:
Early Help Assessment Form