Confidentiality and Parental Access to Policies

 

To ensure that all those using and working in the nursery can do so with confidence, we will respect confidentiality in the following ways:

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Parents/carers will have ready access to files and records of their own children - but not any other child.

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Parents are entitled to view and enquire copies of the nursery policies upon request, on doing so the parent requires to recognize that the nursery will pursue these policies to in order to  safe guard the children

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Staff will not discuss individual children with people other than the parents/carers of that child.

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Information given by parents/carers to nursery staff will not be passed on to third parties.

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Personnel issues will remain confidential to the people involved.

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Any anxieties/evidence relating to a child's personal safety will be kept in a confidential file and will not be shared within the nursery except for the manager.

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The nursery will comply with all requirements of the Data Protection Act.

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       Reviewed December 2018