Information sharing to assist families and children in the child protection system
What the Commonwealth Government can do
September 2008
Report to Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Contents
Chapter 2 - Focusing on families and children in the child protection system
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Defining families and children in the child protection system
- 2.3 Priority times for information sharing
Chapter 3 - Priority information on families and children in the child protection system
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Priority information for child protection agencies
- 3.3 Relevant information held by Commonwealth agencies
Chapter 4 - Current provisions for Commonwealth agencies to share information
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Mechanisms for sharing information
- 4.3 Legal obligations for information sharing
Chapter 5 - Barriers to effective information sharing
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Operating under legal constraints on disclosure of information
- 5.3 The lack of formal protocols for information sharing
- 5.4 Organisational or staff risk aversion to information sharing
Chapter 6 - Recommendations to facilitate and expand information sharing
- 6.1 Improved processes for information sharing for child protection purposes
- 6.2 Consider the appropriateness of thresholds for disclosure in review of secrecy provisions
- 6.3 Further work
- 6.4 Action plan for implementation of recommendations
- 6.5 Issues around information sharing about families at risk
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