Safeguarding Confidentiality

Confidentiality: The point of legislation and procedures covering confidentiality is to ensure only certain and appropriate people should have access to confidential data about children. School's policies and procedures should be followed in regards to sharing information with others. In general confidential information should only be used for the purpose it was collected and not be given to anyone unless the child's safety is at risk. The information can not be passed on without a consent.

Data Protection: There are some principles of managing personal information. It needs to be fairly and lawfully processed, used only for the purpose it was collected, must be adequate, relevant, not excessive, accurate, up-to-date, kept secure and only