Q3. Explain where there may be conflicts or dilemmas in relation to sharing information with partners and maintaining confidentiality
At work we always get children who bicker with their friends and sometimes these bickering/arguments can turn into something worse i.e. fighting.
One day at work I had a child who came over to me and said he had been pushed by another child and needed first aid, I sat the child at the first aid and as I cleaned up his knee I asked him what had happened he then went on to tell me a child had argued with him about a toy and then pushed him over resulting in him hurting his knee, I gave him a plaster and sent him off to play. When writing down in the medical book what had happened to the child I left out the name of the other child and instead wrote ‘another child’ the reason that I wrote this was because if I was to write the child’s name on the medical letter that I give to the boys parents those parents could then become upset that this other child has pushed their child and then start a lot of arguments between the other child’s parents and this can look bad on us as a school for giving out this information.
One version of conflict in relation to sharing information would be if two members of staff got into an argument because one believed a child was being abused and wanted to get more help involved and the other didn’t think the child was being abused and didn’t feel the need to get extra help involved, this could cause a lot of problems as if the member of staff who thought the child was
