Dates: 1 July 2024 - 30 April 2025
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research
Project description
Over the years policy reports and guidance documents have indicated the importance of information sharing across agencies and between professionals to improve safeguarding arrangements. The Department for Education (DfE) produced advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers, but there continued to be evidence that professionals were not clear when they should be sharing information.
Aims
The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of models of information sharing in order to provide guidance to local authorities and other agencies.
The objectives are to:
- explore whether specific service configurations across early help and family support contribute to improved information sharing about fathers
- provide blueprints and lessons for local authorities and practitioners on transfer of an information sharing initiative from one locality to another
- identify factors that may improve the awareness of and confidence to share information
- capture views on revised guidance from the DfE, published in May 2024.
Methods
Document analysis, observations, interviews and focus groups.
Further project information
Principal Investigator: Mary Baginsky (KCL)
Research team: Carl Purcell (KCL), Nicola Steils (KCL)
Countries: England
Keywords: information sharing, fathers/significant men, multi-agency, harm, co-production