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<p>The Department for Education’s Sure Start children’s centres statutory guidance
says that health services and local authorities should share information (such as
live birth data and data on families with children under five who have recently moved
into the area) with children’s centres on a regular basis.</p><p>Local authorities
and commissioners of health services should consider developing local partnership
agreements or protocols to enable effective sharing of live birth data, whilst ensuring
compliance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 and other relevant
legal provisions.</p><p>Birth registration data are in the public domain, and therefore
explicit consent is not required for the sharing of live birth data between health
and local authorities and between local authorities and Sure Start children’s centres.</p><p>The
Department does not hold data relating to local authority practice with regards to
live birth data.</p><p> </p>
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