Sharing information about an individual child is one thing, but sharing data about all the children in your setting, with a health visitor for example, is quite another. This is an issue which has been long felt by local authorities trying to manage large-scale data sharing. One current example with which councils up and down the country are wrestling is the Integrated Review.
As Jean Gross, co-author of Information Sharing In The Foundation Years, points out, ‘Health visitors (HVs) already have information on all children coming up to age two, but won’t automatically know which early years setting they go to. Practitioners should let HVs know who they have, who is coming up for the review. I can see no way myself that this contravenes any data protection legislation.’
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