TDA3.1: 3.1. Summarise the main points of legislation and procedures covering confidentiality, data protection and the disclosure of information
Working together to safeguard children (2006-2010)
A Guide to Inter-agency Working to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children. It sets out how organisations, agencies and individuals working with children should work together to safeguard and promote their welfare in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004.
From September 2009 a named member of the Senior Management Team (Head teacher) will have the responsibility of ensuring that the school does its best to deliver each of the five key issues.
·Must be and stay safe
·Must be healthy
·Must be able to enjoy and achieve
·Must be able to achieve economic well-being
·Must make a positive contribution
Children act (2004)
Largely in response to the Victoria Climbie inquiry. The Act sought to emphasize the importance of inter-agency work and cooperation in from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the …show more content…
Special education needs (SEN) couch practice (2000
This act has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age.
Teaching such children is a whole school responsibility. The continuous cycle of planning, teaching and assessing takes account of the wide range of abilities, aptitudes and interests of children. The majority of children will learn and progress within these arrangements. Those children whose overall attainments or attainment in specific subjects fall significantly outside the expected range may have special educational needs. ‘All teachers are teachers of pupils with special educational needs’ SEN Code of Practice 5.2 and 6.2
Data protection information handling and sharing
This is when you handle and store information about identifiable, living people – for example, about school pupils – you are legally obliged to protect that information. Under the Data Protection Act, you must:
Only collect information that you need for a specific