The quality of recording has implications at all different levels. The levels are the person, practitioner, manager and LBC and the records serve differing.  Listed below are the purposes for the person and the practitioner, further details regarding manager and LBC can be found in the full case recording guidance:

Person

• Tools to support choices and document the person’s decisions
• Can help a person understand his or her own strengths, capabilities and the resources they can access
• A record of persons identified needs and how the agreed outcomes will be met
• Can be used to monitor the person’s progress
• Provides continuity of records when workers change
• Recorded information, such as previous assessments can be used when the person has lost the capacity to confirm what their wishes and values were prior to losing capacity

Practitioner

• Evidence of what intervention has taken place
• Enabled to focus and plan their work effectively and provide evidence
• Outcomes can be used as a tool in planning assessments and decision-making
• Evaluate the work they have completed, monitor progress and plan future work with and on behalf of the person
• Evidence partnership working with teams across LBC and external organisation, such as Camden Carers Centre, Camden Safety Net and the NHS
• Chronology of safeguarding concerns and section 42 enquiries which workers can use to analysis and make a judgement about risk and need