Information Sharing Guidance for Practitioners Sample Clauses

Information Sharing Guidance for Practitioners. In all situations the overriding consideration as to whether to share information should be the safety and welfare of the child. Good practice indicates that obtaining parental, or where appropriate the child’s consent, should be a first consideration but a lack of consent should never compromise the safety or welfare of a child. Sharing confidential information without consent in the public interest is normally justified; • Where there is evidence that the child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm. • Where there is reasonable cause to believe that a child may be suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm. • To prevent significant harm arising to children and young people or serious harm to adults, including through the prevention, detection and prosecution of serious crime. Sharing information as part of preventative services; • Obtaining consent should be the first consideration. • Where this is not possible the key factor in deciding whether to share confidential information without consent is proportionality, i.e. whether in your judgement, the proposed sharing is a proportionate response putting the child’s safety and welfare as the overriding consideration. • In making the decision you must weigh up what might happen if the information is shared against what might happen if it is not, make a decision based on reasonable judgement and record it. • If you are not sure about whether you should share information or not seek advice from your line manager, or safeguarding lead, In addition advice may need to be sought from agency information governance leads/records management leads or legal teams. Sharing information in the case of sexual activity of under 16 year olds • Assessment of the sexual activity of all children and young people under 16 years of age should include the recommendations recommended by Xxxxxxx. • All children under the age of 13 years of age must be referred to social care and/or police in line with child protection procedures. • Where there are concerns of sexual exploitation it is important to share information about the child/young person and sexual partner/partners. Whose consent should be sought? The following criteria should be used to assess whether a particular child has sufficient understanding to give or refuse consent, however, children aged 12 or over may generally be expected to have sufficient understanding (Xxxxxx competent). • Can the child understand the question being asked of them? • Does th...
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