Day centre and breach of confidentiality

[Alex54]

Should day centres be allowed to produce confidential reports on clients to social services?

First a bit of background: my wife's social worker pushed for her to attended the local day centre which was financially supported by social services. The day centre visit did not go well, and at a DST meeting a few weeks later the social worker started to read out passages from what looked like a detailed report from the day centre. When I contacted the day centre and asked for a copy it was refused.

Here are my thoughts:

1. The day centre is breaching the confidentiality between clients and the day centre. I agree it should be able to send reports to social services on who attends and general comments. However, it is wrong to send a detailed assessment of a client without first getting approval from the client or family first.
2. It is also wrong to exclude the client/family. Any detailed report to social services should allow for comments by the client/family.
3. The day centre staff are not qualified to produce assessments on clients, these should only be produced by qualified medical personal.

What do you think?

 

[Jessbow]

If SS are paying the fees/cost, surely the contract is between them and the day centre.

If SS asked for a detailed report from the day centre in support of funding ( or not funding) why would they have to ask your permission?

 

[Quizbunny]

I suspect that the staff at centres that provide care for people with dementia receive training that does qualify them to make assessments. To be honest I would think that those who work closely with PWD are better qualified than most health professionals