Information Sharing

Information must be shared and agencies must help to analyse information so that an assessment can be made of the child�s needs and circumstances.

Communication between those working with children and young people is key to successful joined up working across services, as set out in Every Child Matters: Change for Children.

Through improved information sharing and a common approach to assessing children's needs, we can help to ensure that:

• all children and young people get access to the universal education, health and other services to which they are entitled;

• children and young people with additional needs get the right services at the right time;

• there is effective safeguarding for children at risk of harm.

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