Confidentiality Statement

Information shared between residents, counsellors and staff is confidential. This means that it will go no further than the members of the team responsible for your care.

It is also essential that all residents respect other group members' rights to confidentiality.

What is seen or said between group members must not be disclosed to anyone outside, for example family members or visitors.

Confidentiality Exceptions

The law requires that confidentiality is not sustainable in the following circumstances:

• If someone discloses something that leads a counsellor to believe that "serious and avoidable harm is being done, or is likely to be done, to a vulnerable person".
• There is a disclosure about ongoing child abuse. This includes disclosure that sexually explicit material involving children under the age of 18 has been viewed.
• There is a disclosure regarding acts of terrorism.

All visitors to Prinsted are subject to this confidentiality statement and are asked to sign an agreement.