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

North Yorkshire’s Early Help Strategy (2019) outlines what Early Help looks like and how the approach works across the county.

The North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NYSCP) is currently undertaking a review of its Early Help Strategy to ensure full alignment with the emerging Families First Partnership Programme guidance.
The Partnership recognises and welcomes the significant reforms being introduced across the children’s safeguarding and wellbeing system. These changes represent a positive shift towards a more integrated, family-centred approach, designed to ensure that children receive the right help at the right time and that safeguarding responses are proportionate, timely, and effective.
During this transition period, North Yorkshire’s Safeguarding Children Partnership is working with partners across the county to reflect the new national expectations, strengthen multi-agency collaboration, and embed a shared understanding of thresholds. This work will support improved identification of need, more consistent decision-making, and better outcomes for children, their families and their networks.

An updated Early Help Strategy will be published once this review is complete. In the meantime, partners should continue to apply professional curiosity alongside existing guidance, while remaining mindful of the direction of travel set out in the national Families First reforms.

View and download the Early Help Strategy:


Additional supporting documents:
Early Help Assessment Form

The Best Start Plan sets out how partners across North Yorkshire will work together to improve outcomes for babies and young children, ensuring families can access the right support from pregnancy through to starting school. It provides a shared framework for early help, prevention and integrated working, supporting professionals and communities to give every child the best possible start in life.
View the plan here: Best Start Plan North Yorkshire.