A primary care trust is relaunching parent-held child health records to enable education professionals to access them and add information.
Jacqui Mann, Children's National Service Framework lead for the five Devon PCTs, said the records, which track information on a child's health such as immunisations and growth, would be relaunched with a multi-agency focus in April.
Mann added that the initiative would encourage parents to participate more in the wellbeing of their child, as well as the sharing of information between professionals with parental consent.
It would also prevent some work from being duplicated, she claimed, pointing out that a child's first educational assessment, at the age of four, coincides with an assessment made by health visitors at roughly the same time.
