The Scottish IS Toolkit is an update of SASPI which was developed in 2011 and due for review since 2015. The Toolkit incorporates an enhances information sharing arrangement across the public sector, including confidential information beyond personal information. But also represents an improvement in terms of good practices along the negotiation process that represents the agreement between multiple partners on key aspects of the sharing, in an improved way compared to predecessor models.
The Toolkit is focused on guiding the parties during the negotiation process and beyond, without the need to repeat what is already written in Law. Rather than repeating statements available somewhere else, the Toolkit is a practical set of resources and guidelines to ensure the parties discuss and agree on the key decisions that need to made at both the more strategic and the more operational ends of the process.
The recommended approach is to apply the Toolkit at the point of reviews of existent agreements or when new information sharing protocols need to be put in place between the parties.