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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board is the local safeguarding children partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, covering 402 open schools. This page gathers where it publishes its procedures, how to report a concern about a child in each area, and what children's services record there. It is not the partnership's own site.

Where to find it

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Staff in a school tell the designated safeguarding lead first. Links checked 27 September 2026.

What a designated safeguarding lead should hold from it

  • Its published safeguarding arrangements and current priorities.
  • Its threshold document, sometimes called the continuum of need, which sets out when a concern should be referred to children's social care.
  • The route to early help.
  • The procedure for allegations against staff.
  • Its latest local learning reviews.

Check each when the child protection policy is reviewed, and name the partnership in the policy.

The areas it covers

Cambridgeshire

Across Cambridgeshire, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.

311 open schools, each with a page on the safeguarding context around it.

Schools and figures for Cambridgeshire

Peterborough

Across Peterborough, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.

91 open schools, each with a page on the safeguarding context around it.

Schools and figures for Peterborough

Questions about Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board

Which areas does Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board cover?

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board covers Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with 402 open schools between them.

Where is the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board threshold document?

The partnership publishes its procedures and its threshold document, sometimes called the continuum of need, which sets out when a concern should be referred to children's social care, on its website, https://www.safeguardingcambspeterborough.org.uk. Check there for the current version.

What should a designated safeguarding lead hold from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board?

Its published arrangements and current priorities, its threshold document, the route to early help, the procedure for allegations against staff, and its latest learning reviews, each checked when the child protection policy is reviewed.

Is this Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board's own website?

No. This page is published by Safeguarding Context, which is independent of the partnership, to help schools find their local arrangements. The partnership's own website is the current source for its procedures and contacts.

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Partnership and council links from the Safeguarding Context list of local arrangements, checked every week. Children's services figures from the Department for Education and the Welsh Government, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.