Toolkit
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Addressing a pressing challenge for many agencies, practice managers, social workers, commissioners, regulators and other community stakeholders, our toolkit exists to help you implement the Charter.
The Charter exists as a framework and therefore an abstract level. The most common question asked is how can organisations implement the Charter. To assist, we have developed a toolkit of resources which consists of:
- a Best Practice Guide that links actions to the Charter rights
- 11 pieces of Practice Advice which contain key implementation actions, explanations of certain issues and links to further resources to help organisations further explore challenges of relevance.
- strategies for regulatory bodies to implement uptake of the Charter.
Best practices
This Best Practice guide links actions to Charter rights.
Practice advice
Here we identify what issues exist and suggest practical, implementable actions to take with links to further resources. Aimed at service provider organisations, these are designed to be pragmatic and practical – starting from current practice.
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1: Children protection and recordkeeping: overarching issues
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7: Recordkeeping and Lifestory resources
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2: What records are made about a child
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8: Recordkeeping expert adviser
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3: How information in records will be used or shared with others
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9: Access to records
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4: Recording the child’s view on managing their records
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10: Talking back to the record
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5: Creating child-centred records
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11: Destroying records
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6: Selecting apps
Implementation strategies
The strategies support regulatory responsibilities and suggest 10 immediately implementable actions to encourage uptake of the Charter provisions.