Unit Outcome

Schools subscribe to develop their policy on confidentiality (with peculiar(prenominal) reference to giving support and advice to children and new people on issues relating to sexuality and relationships). It is important take aims have an established procedure for pass outing with confidentiality, which is understood by educatees, staff, parents, careers and visitors rather than develop ad hoc arrangements in response to a crisis. The procedures need to be consistent and protect the interests of both(prenominal) pupils and staff.Having a policy result help to hold there is a shared understanding of how confidentiality operates in your school community. A consistent, shared ethos and practice will help pupils, staff, parents, careers and visitors carry on with ND know where they stand with confidential issues and will help you to deal with disclosure of information and establish ways of working (for example in SHE) which follow privacy and avoid unnecessary personal discl osure.This document does non suggest that all members of the school community should offer the same levels of confidentiality. go need to be taken to ensure that confidential disclosures are do to the appropriate person at the appropriate time. In order to ensure this, all members of the school community need to be aware of the limits of confidentiality on tap(predicate) in different circumstances and by different individuals.As part of a whole school policy on confidentiality schools should consider other aspects of school life where confidentiality whitethorn be pertinent, such as handling pupil information. You should also consider the professional support and supervision that teaching and non-teaching staff, including volunteers, such as mentors, need to ensure the protection, health, safety and well being of both the pupils and staff and practical considerations which require school staff to share information in the best interests of individual pupils and all pupils colle ctively.Human Rights Act 1998 Gives everyone the obligation to respect for his private ND family life, his home and his correspondence, unless this is overridden by the public interest, e. G. For reasons of squirt Protection, for the protection of public safety, public order, health or morals or for the rights and freedoms of others. Data Protection Act 1998 This applies to personal data of living, identifiable individuals, non anonymous data manual and electronic records.Schools need to be clear, when hive away personal data, what purposes it will be used for and schools should have policies to clarify this to staff, pupils and parents. immunity Of Information Act 2000 Amends the Data Protection Act. Gives everyone the right to supplicate any records a public body, including schools, holds about them. A school may withhold information it has if it is considered the information may damage the recipient, if disclosed. A Schools data or record keeping policy should also cover th e requirements of this Act. . Children and young people particularly can feel vulnerable about reservation disclosures for fear of being in trouble themselves, the repercussions of anyone else getting into trouble and fearing they expertness be guilty or responsible themselves. They do not constantly rationalist on wider issues such s the fact that problems do not always go away by themselves, their own human right to respectful treatment and are capable of not speaking and residence on problems and perhaps enlarging them in their own minds.