CONFIDENTIALITY  IN  SCHOOLS

                            

KEY INFORMATION ON PROTECTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLES PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Finding the right balance when dealing with a child's privacy as well as promoting positive values with their parents and carers is a rather difficult task for most teachers and staff. It is a thin line between confidentiality and safety when a child is at risk. 
It’s always best to make sure that children, young people and families involved with your organisation know where they stand on issues around confidentiality and information sharing before any specific problem or situation arises that could test your relationship with them. You can do

 this by producing a simple statement of principles that underpins your approach, and by sharing this with those who need to know about it at the outset of your relationship with them, and at any key decision making points. Parents, carers, children and young people who have concerns about confidentiality should always be given the opportunity to talk through their concerns, and to be advised on what could happen to information they disclose.

INCLUSION AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES

Inclusive education means that all students attend and are welcomed by their neighbourhood schools in age-appropriate, regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school.

Inclusive education is about how we develop and design our schools, classrooms, programs and activities so that all students learn and participate together.

It’s important because we value our diverse communities. These communities start at school, where all students learn to live alongside peers. They learn together; they play together; they grow and are nurtured together.

I have included here a video on inclusion in a school in Hertfordshire. It's a shining example of how  effort and hard work can work wonders on children!