Tend My Flock

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Kate Litchfield. Tend My Flock

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Information shared in confidence with an ordained person must, in all but the most exceptional circumstances (1.13; 1.16; pp. 34–5), be regarded as confidential and only divulged with the other person’s properly informed consent. Learning when and how to hold confidentiality and when and how to share information is an essential part of ministerial formation. However, confidentiality is particularly complex in pastoral care, because information may be obtained in situations and encounters, such as committee meetings or phone conversations, where it may not be so obvious that there is an expectation of confidentiality.

Training incumbents and curates face particular issues of confidentiality which they need to reflect upon together. Some hold the view that assistant clergy in training posts should normally share with their training incumbent information given to them within a parish pastoral context (Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of Clergy 2003). If this is the agreed policy then parishioners should be made aware of it. Others would say that the curate should always obtain explicit consent before sharing information with their incumbent and respect any refusal.

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