How much will you discuss with parents or carers of very young children?
That depends on what the child is happy for us to feedback. Our duty of confidentiality is to the child rather than the parents so we would not discuss things with other people without the child’s permission unless we were concerned about someone’s safety (and then we would follow our Child Protection Policy). However, often children will be quite happy for us to talk to their parents or carers and will ask us to do so. Sometimes younger children want their parents or carers there when we meet them so they would be aware of the work we are doing with their children. Our confidentiality policy is explained to all young people when we start work with them and is available to parents and carers as well.
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