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Understand legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection

Think about your setting’s method of storing confidential records about children.

Is the storage system secure?
Who has access to the records?
Does everyone who has access to the records understand the importance of confidentiality and the setting’s procedures for maintaining confidentiality?
Can you think of any ways to improve the organisation or storage of the information?
Share your thoughts with your tutor.

Table of Contents

Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

‘Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers' by HM Government
‘Education data’ on the Information Commissioner’s Office website
‘Recognising and responding to abuse: Information sharing’ by the NSPCC
‘Data protection in schools’ from the Department for Education

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

Think about your setting’s method of storing confidential records about children.
Click to read ‘Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges’ by the Department for Education.
This article from the Information Commissioner‘s Office (ICO) is about Accessing pupils’ information’.
Click to read ‘Sharing safeguarding information with other staff' on the Safeguarding in schools website.
‘12 steps to better cybersecurity and safeguarding for schools’ on the Beaming website. Click on the icon to the left to read this article.

Extended Learning
Think And Challenge