Is this about information sharing databases? No, that announcement isyet to come, and please call them child indexes. This currentconsultation is about guidance on how, when and why to share informationabout children.
Is it "joint guidance"? Yes, it's been developed across the Departmentfor Education and Skills (DfES), Department of Health, Home Office,Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Department forConstitutional Affairs. And it aims to cover all services, includinghealth, education, early years, social care, youth offending andleisure. And all adults, including volunteers who work with children andyoung people across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Comprehensive. But non-statutory. It continues to endorse theGovernment's belief that individual practitioners must be allowed, aswell as be able, to make their own decisions when it comes to sharinginformation about a child - linked to an interesting notion of whypeople might want to do so: to help children achieve the Every ChildMatters outcomes, to safeguard and promote their welfare, and to preventthem from committing crime.
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