Improving information sharing practice is a cornerstone of the Government Every Child Matters strategy to improve outcomes for children. The guidance offered here compliments and supports wider policies to improve information sharing across children’s services.
Sharing information is vital for early intervention to ensure that children and young people with additional needs get the services they require. It is also essential to protect children and young people form suffering harm form abuse or neglect and to prevent them from offending.
It is important that practitioners understand when, why and how they should share information so that they can do so confidently and appropriately as part of their day-to-day practice.