Demands for confidentiality can sometimes stand in the way of doingeverything possible to safeguard and promote a child's welfare.
An education welfare officer relates what happened in the case of apregnant schoolgirl.
Everyone agrees professionals need to work together in the bestinterests of children, but every meeting about information sharing thatI go to leaves me more confused than the last.
The current draft guidance seems full of contradictions and there arevery different expectations in different agencies, especially when itcomes to older children and young people.
Take a recent case of a 14-year-old girl who confided to staff at herschool that she was pregnant. There were no perceived child protectionissues and she was helped to access appropriate health services who, ather request, arranged a termination.
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