Post by Rose on Jun 7, 2017 16:02:17 GMT -8
Confidentiality is important because it makes families feel secure and safe, and helps to ensure the trusting relationship necessary between families and their child care provider. It allows families to feel respected and maintain their dignity, while feeling powerful and supported in making choices about their children.
If you do not maintain confidentiality there are legal repercussions of course, but you will also have lost the trust and respect of the family in your care and possibly hindered their ability to trust other child care providers. This may affect the child's development because the parent may be afraid to trust another program.
In the case of abuse/neglect, not maintaining confidentiality can save a child's life or help to remove them from danger. This is the only time confidentiality should be broken, and even this should be only to those individuals directly involved in advocating for the child.
If you do not maintain confidentiality there are legal repercussions of course, but you will also have lost the trust and respect of the family in your care and possibly hindered their ability to trust other child care providers. This may affect the child's development because the parent may be afraid to trust another program.
In the case of abuse/neglect, not maintaining confidentiality can save a child's life or help to remove them from danger. This is the only time confidentiality should be broken, and even this should be only to those individuals directly involved in advocating for the child.