Information Sharing Toolkit

This toolkit has been developed to establish a comprehensive and consistent standard within and across organisations/authorities for the treatment of personal identifiable information. It places service users (children, young people and their families) at the centre of how information is used. The toolkit is endorsed by the DfES.

The toolkit comprises:

• Tier 90: Overview
  A summary of what the toolkit is
  
  
• Tier 1: Information Sharing Framework
  Sets out the rules, values and principles for information processing/sharing within and between organisations, irrespective of the purpose. It is aimed at the strategic level.
  
  
• Tier 2: Information Community Agreement
  A means of defining a community of two or more organisations with a shared information sharing/processing objective. It is aimed at the middle management level.
  
  
• Tier 3: Operational Arrangement
  A means of capturing the business processes that will support information processing/sharing for a particular purpose and communicating those to operational staff within and across organisations. It is aimed at the operational manager/practitioner level.
  
  
• Tier 4: Privacy, Confidentiality and Consent
  Covers the range of processes and documentation that will directly affect service users and includes: privacy/confidentiality statement, fair processing notice, consent, subject access, etc. It is aimed at the service user level.
  
  
• Appendices
  Intended to be the principal reference guide, supporting the application of tiers 1 to 4
  
  
• IS Toolkit Model
  PowerPoint representation of how the elements fit together

Other elements will be added in due course, including: assessment tools, examples of tier 2, 3 and 4 documents, and applications of tier 2, 3 and 4 documents.