Information Sharing
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FRAMEWORK FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN IN NEED AND THEIR FAMILIES
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
This is issued to children, young people, adults and their families to inform them what information is being collected and recorded about them, the reasons for doing so, under what circumstances it might be shared and why, and their right of access to the data. In education establishments this is normally through a letter from the Head teacher to the young person’s parent/guardian/carer.
Family learning covers all forms of informal and formal learning that involve more than one generation. 'Family' members can include friends as well as family, reflecting the range of support relationships that individuals rely on in the twenty-first century. It includes learning about roles, relationships and responsibilities in relation to stages of family life; parenting education; and learning how to understand, take responsibility and make decisions in relation to wider society, in which the family is a foundation for citizenship. A National Family Learning Week is celebrated annually every October.
FRAMEWORK FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN IN NEED AND THEIR FAMILIES
The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (often referred to simply as the Assessment Framework) was issued jointly by the Department of Health, the Department for Education and Employment (as it then was) and the Home Office in 2000. It provides guidance to local authorities’ social services departments and other agencies on the assessment of children in need under the Children Act 1989. The framework sets out to provide a systematic way of analyzing and recording what is happening to children and young people within their families and the wider community in which they live, so that sound professional judgements can be made on children’s needs.
FRANK is the government’s public information campaign operating in England and Wales and aiming to provide free, confidential advice FRANK was launched in May 2003 and since then there have been over 4 million visits to its drug information website talktofrank.com and 700,000 calls to its helpline - 0800 77 66 00. The campaign targets 11-21 year olds, and the parents of 11-18 year olds, but the service is for everyone and FRANK is used and adapted locally for drug campaigns.
FRASER COMPETENCY – See also Gillick Competence
The term arises from the case in the early 1980s when Victoria Gillick attempted to set a legal precedent which would have meant that medical practitioners could not give young people under the age of 16 treatment or contraceptive services without parental permission. The ruling was initially successful but then the House of Lords ruled that young people who are under 16 are competent to give valid consent to a particular intervention if they have sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable them to understand fully what is proposed and are capable of expressing their own wishes. Lord Fraser was the leading Law Lord for the review.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
This Act gives people a general right of access to information held by or on behalf of public authorities, promoting a culture of openness and accountability across the public sector. This should lead to a better understanding about how public authorities carry out their duties, why they make the decisions they do and how they spend public money. The Connexions Service is regarded as being accountable under this Act.
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