Why Is Confidentiality Important

Confidentiality means keeping private and personal information safe to protect individuals, and to not share the information with people unless they need to know for safeguarding or health and safety reasons.
For example if a child was to tell you their Mum hits them, then you wouldn’t keep this to yourself, you would inform the child that you had to share this with another adult. But you would only share it with the relevant people, and you wouldn’t go and tell everyone you know what the child has told you because that information should still remain confidential.
The confidentiality policies are put in place to protect individuals, especially children and vulnerable adults. Each setting will have a huge variety of private and personal information