Private and confidential? – Handling personal info rmation in the social and health services

This multi-disciplinary collection explores the establishment of trust where people and organisations are bounded by honesty. An essential read. Steven Shardlow, Director of The Institute for Health and Social Care Research, University of Salford

This collection of essays is a timely and excellent contribution to the debates about confidentiality and information sharing....iIt offers a wealth of ideas....and it is thus essential reading...a major contribution to stimulating and informing the needed debate among professional groups about how to respond to the new challenges while maintaining their ethical standards in relation to users. Eileen Munro in Ethics and Social Welfare Vol 3:1

Chris Clark, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh and Janice McGhee, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh

Notes on contributors

Introduction
      Janice McGhee and Chris Clark
Part One: Professional confidentiality revisited
1. Personal information and the professional relationship: issues of trust, privacy and welfare
      Cynthia Bisman
2. Confidentiality, trust and truthfulness in professional relationships
      Chris Clark
3. Confidentiality in practice: non-Western perspectives on privacy
      Ian Harper
4. Ethical practice in joined-up working
      Ian E. Thompson
Part Two: Balancing individual privacy with the right to information
5. The right to privacy and confidentiality for children: the law and current challenges
      Lilian Edwards and Rowena Rodrigues
6. Public protection in practice: Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
      Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood
7. The right to information in practice: adoption records, confidentiality and secrecy
      Gary Clapton
Part Three: Working together
8. Confidentiality and information sharing in child protection
      Janice McGhee
9. Working with children and young people: privacy and identity
      Peter Ashe
10. Working with adults with incapacity
      Susan Hunter and Lisa Curtice
11. Working together? Sharing personal information in health and social care services
      Val Baker
Conclusion
      Chris Clark and Janice McGhee

Index