Hi, the potential tensions are everything to do your professional responsibilities eg. duty of care, safeguarding and protecting individuals, maintaining confidentiality, working as a team, knowing your requirement to follow policy and procedure, have regard to the law and individual's rights, what the best interests of the child are, how information is stored, recorded and shared and an array of should you, shouldn't you and what if dilemas.
The criteria asks you to analyse which means taking a look at what
confidentiality is, what it invloves and means and
disclosing information which means to share what you know with others - they are conflicting actions which are equally valued and expected so they create tension ie. how can you maintain confidentiality if you're expected to disclose certain information to others.
What policies and procedures could you read to find out about protecting children in your setting or placement? -
possible safeguarding policies have you signed a confidentiality agreement?
1) Where abuse of a child or young person is suspected would you follow the setting's policy and procedures? how would you decide if the information you hold is important enough for you to disclose it? Who would you approach with the information or who would you ask for advice if were unsure?
In a professional discussion you might be expected to explain your understanding of how confidentiality needs to be broken if it's suspected that a child is at risk of harm.
2) When it is suspected that a crime has been/may be committed? again how would you decide that the information you hold is important enough to disclose to an appropriate colleague or organisation - which policies and procedures would you follow? You might be asked to explain how you understand that your duty of care means professionals are expected to safeguard the children in their care and report illegal activity.
Individual's have privacy rights which invlove having personal information kept safe and confidential -
rights on liberty.org.uk
A setting would maintain the confidentiality of information that has already been disclosed by having secure storage facilities, policies and procedures that guide who accesses the information/how it is shared and what reporting formats are used.
Threads
http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13515
These scenarios might help you to examine the tensions of why you might disclose information and why you might maintain confidentiality
Signs of abuse on kirklees safeguarding children.co.uk
-- a child asks if you can keep a secret - what words do you use to reply?
-- a child tells you a bright light in their house and a smell in their bedroom makes their head and their eyes hurt.
-- a child appears constantly hungry
-- you notice bruises or other injury on a child when changing clothes for a swimming session
-- a parent hits or verbally threatens a child as they prepare to leave the setting
-- a youthworker overhears a 10 year old child excitedly tell others how he and an older sibling avoided police last night when they stole a car, drove it across the city and then set it on fire.
There are other situations and information that will help with this if you've access to a
level 3 handbook, look for the chapter on unit CYP3.6
Quote:
http://skillsforjustice2010.re-dev.c...R_Workbook.pdf
What is confidentiality
Confidentiality means not passing on information about a person, organisation, or situation to anyone who has who does not have a right or
need to know it. There are many situations in which you should think about confidentiality. Personal information about anyone - parents, other staff members – should in general never be discussed with anyone else unless you have that person’s permission, or there is a very good reason why someone else needs to know. Even then, sensitive information should not be passed on unless it is essential. For instance, it may be necessary to pass on the information that someone is sick, but not to say what their illness is. Information about contact details should never be passed on
without permission, as to do so could place someone in danger When working with children, there particular issues concerning child protection and you will learn more about this when working towards your NVQ and technical certificate.
The dangers of gossip.
Confidentiality can be broken deliberately, or by accident - for instance by leaving written information around where it can be seen. Probably the most common way of breaking confidentiality, however, is gossip –
idle conversation about other people. This includes talking about parents or staff to or in front of other parents, or in front of the children, and
talking about any of the children to other parents or in front of other children.
In an Early Years setting it is important to remember that children are people too; they have a right not to be discussed without good reason, and children who can talk may also notice, understand and pass on much more than you think if you talk in front of them!
Hth
3.6 Analyse the potential tension between maintaining confidentiality with the need to disclose information
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