Sharing information safely
Multi-agency working and safeguarding information sharing.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Serving the public
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
People are protected when agencies share what they know and act together, yet failures open at the boundary where everyone assumes someone else is responsible. Working across the landscape comes first: Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, integrated health and social care, joint emergency response, Avanti's four conditions for leading partnerships, the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and JESIP. Information sharing and learning from reviews follow, clearing away myths with the Department for Education's 2024 advice, explaining the Single Unified Safeguarding Review in Wales and reflecting with care on the Child Practice Review following the death of Logan Mwangi.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Describe how MAPPA, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response bring separate bodies together around shared work.
- Explain why no single agency holds the whole picture, and correct common myths about data protection, consent and timing in safeguarding information sharing.
- Explain why accountability blurs when delivery crosses organisational boundaries, using the four ways delivery slips and the limits of coordinating frameworks.
- Compare partnership and review arrangements in Wales and England, including the Single Unified Safeguarding Review and multi-agency child protection teams.
- Apply practical questions about duties, handovers and a shared picture, alongside the four conditions for partnership, when your work crosses a boundary.
- Plan how your organisation will read, test, change, check and share the learning from safeguarding reviews so that practice changes.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 12Working Across the Landscape: Multi-Agency Delivery and Statutory DutyMost serious public service work crosses organisational lines, and failures open at the boundary. This module looks at Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response, draws on Avanti's Leading Partnerships material and its four conditions, and examines why inquiries find everyone assumed someone else was responsible. It sets out the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and JESIP, with practical questions for crossing boundaries.43 min
- 06Working Together: Information Sharing and Learning from ReviewsThis module looks at how agencies share information and learn together. It clears away common myths using the Department for Education's 2024 information sharing advice, compares partnership structures in Wales and England, and explains the Single Unified Safeguarding Review in Wales. It reflects with care on the Child Practice Review following the death of Logan Mwangi, recurring review themes, and five steps from review to change.36 min