Information sharing will soon be hard to avoid. Already every English local authority is busy devising endless protocols on it and the children bill promises to erase any doubts about its legality.
Although driven largely by concerns about child protection, information sharing is in no way limited to the world of the social worker. The Government envisages all agencies that have contact with young people contributing.
Practical issues
The aim of this new sharing culture, namely helping young people at risk, is hard to fault, but practical realities are more complex. For example, will youth workers be faced by a sea of bureaucratic information-sharing procedures?
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