Extracted from Privacy & Confidentiality Policy (May 2023);
POLICY STATEMENT
Our service recognises and respects the importance of privacy and confidentiality as an individual right and a basis for building partnerships. Our service requires personal information from families to provide appropriate and responsive care. This policy has been developed to comply with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) (2014) and pursues the highest standard in the protection and preservation of privacy and confidentiality.
GOALS
Our service will;
- Maintain private and confidential files for educators and staff, children and their families, developing systems for the appropriate use, storage and disposal of records.
- Ensure the information in these files is used only for the education and care of the child enrolled in the service, and only shared with relevant or authorised people as defined within authorisations of the Education and Care Services National Regulations.