Safeguarding and Welfare Requirement: Information and Records
St. Mark’s Pre-school maintains records and obtains and shares information to ensure the safe and efficient management of the pre-school, and to help ensure the needs of all children are met.
10.11 Working in partnership with other agencies
POLICY STATEMENT
Working in partnership with local and national agencies to promote the well-being of all children.
PROCEDURES
- Little Birds pre-school works in partnership, or in tandem with, local and national agencies to promote the well-being of children.
- Procedures are in place for the sharing of information about children and families with other agencies. These are set out in the Information Sharing Policy, Safeguarding Children and Child Protection Policy and the Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs Policy.
- Information shared by other agencies with us is regarded as third party information. This is also kept in confidence and not shared without consent from that agency.
- When working in partnership with staff from other agencies, we make those individuals welcome in the pre-school and their professional roles are respected.
- We follow the protocols for working with agencies, for example on child protection.
- Staff from other agencies do not have unsupervised access to the child they are visiting in the pre-school and do not have access to any other child(ren) during their visit.
- Out staff do not casually share information or seek informal advice about any named child/family.
- When necessary, we consult with local and national agencies who offer a wealth of advice and information that help us to develop our understanding of the issues facing us and who can provide support and information for parents. For example, ethnic/cultural organisations, drug/alcohol agencies, welfare rights advisors or organisations promoting childcare and education, or adult education.
- We always follow GDPR regulations when sharing information.
This policy and the provisions practices will be reviewed periodically and kept up-to-date in accordance with any changes in legislation.
This policy was adopted at a meeting of Little Birds Pre-school committee on: 21.01.2014
Reviewed and updated: 13/11/2018
Reviewed and agreed: 27/04/2021
