Assessment 3
The importance of confidentiality and data protection
Information about the child is confidential between the family and the childminder. By the law of Data protection Act (1998) all information about the children and their families is confidential (including photos and conversations) and must not be revealed to anyone outside the home unless there is permission from the family (except where there are concerns about a child’s welfare).
Keeping Confidentiality is highly essential and can protect the individual from bad use of personal information.
Confidentiality is maintained when the childminder never discusses about a child or a family with another family or another child-carer and when holding written information about a family, it is always securely stored and locked or password protected.
Confidentiality is highly important, because if breeching confidentiality, it can risk the childminder work or cause harm to the child or the whole family.
The impact of breeching confidentiality can affect the childminder when it may lead to lack of trust by the families or even to the risk of a formal complaint against the childminder. Relevant authorities might find out and make it harder on the childminder to find more work. A sudden live of the childminder might be difficult on the child. The leak of information can affect badly on the child by other children tease. It can affect the whole family as well, when information about them breeched to others, they may suffer from being a subject of gossip. This may lead to hostile behavior against them.
However, there are special circumstances when breaching confidentiality is an obligation! If the childminder has a concern that the child is at risk of any form of harm or abuse, it is her legal obligation to inform the appropriate authorities.
Another way which the childminder can use information about the child or the family is when she got a consent from the parent to use the information as discussed and or signed
Information about the child is confidential between the family and the childminder. By the law of Data protection Act (1998) all information about the children and their families is confidential (including photos and conversations) and must not be revealed to anyone outside the home unless there is permission from the family (except where there are concerns about a child’s welfare).
Keeping Confidentiality is highly essential and can protect the individual from bad use of personal information.
Confidentiality is maintained when the childminder never discusses about a child or a family with another family or another child-carer and when holding written information about a family, it is always securely stored and locked or password protected.
Confidentiality is highly important, because if breeching confidentiality, it can risk the childminder work or cause harm to the child or the whole family.
The impact of breeching confidentiality can affect the childminder when it may lead to lack of trust by the families or even to the risk of a formal complaint against the childminder. Relevant authorities might find out and make it harder on the childminder to find more work. A sudden live of the childminder might be difficult on the child. The leak of information can affect badly on the child by other children tease. It can affect the whole family as well, when information about them breeched to others, they may suffer from being a subject of gossip. This may lead to hostile behavior against them.
However, there are special circumstances when breaching confidentiality is an obligation! If the childminder has a concern that the child is at risk of any form of harm or abuse, it is her legal obligation to inform the appropriate authorities.
Another way which the childminder can use information about the child or the family is when she got a consent from the parent to use the information as discussed and or signed