Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
Information sharing is vital to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. A key factor identified in many serious case reviews (SCRs) has been a failure by practitioners to record information, to share it, to understand its significance and then take appropriate action.
This HM Government information sharing advice is non-statutory and has been produced to support practitioners in the decisions they take when sharing information to reduce the risk of harm to children and young people.