My view may alter depending in whether the minutes are public domain
documents form a publicly accountable body.
if they are, then I feel there is an absolute right to see these without
recourse to the DP Act
If they are not, then I believe that the parent has the right to see data
about self and child on presentation of an SAR and (I think in this case) a
SINGLE fee. However I believe that the minutes may legitimately be
anonymised to read "person A" etc instead of real names
While logic may say that it is socially desirable to release or not to
release the minutes, I do not see how this can be avoided.
-----Original Message-----
From: Broom, Doreen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 February 2002 10:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Rights to Minutes
All
A local primary school runs an after-school Club. The Headmistress of the
school is involved, together with a Parent Committee and one parent is
employed to run the club and it was agreed that her child could attend the
club free of charge. Anyway, two children (one of them being the child of
the person running the club) and another fell out - bullying, swearing etc
at each other.
Questions were asked of children involved and this of course was minuted as
well as statements from the parent who was runing the club. The parent
member's child is now in other child care but the other parent will not let
this go and wants a copy of the actual minutes. The Parent Committee sent
out a generalisation of the Meeting (withholding childrens' names under the
Data Protection Act).
What are your views - should the parent who is requesting the information be
able to obtain copies of the actual Minutes - apparently, the parents know
each other and there are other underlying features to this i.e. they fell
out socially.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Doreen
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