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The child never was sleeping rough and on that basis, I am coming from the
point of view that anyone could phone up a Social Work Department (perhaps
maliciously - potentially a neighbour) and state e.g. a child was being
abused....Where do you determine then whether it is accurate information as
you have to act in the best interests of a child.
By the way, the original reporting of this incident came from children who
were in care.....
D
Doreen Broom
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> Sent: 05 August 2003 14:03
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> Subject: Re: SARs - accuracy of data
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> In relation to the social work question about a child being reported as
> sleeping
> rough and then finding out that she isn't surely there is no issue of
> accuracy.
> If someone has reported to you that a person is sleeping rough then that
> record
> is an accurate record of something that has been reported. If you then
> find out
> after investigation that she is not then the record of the fact that she
> is not
> sleeping rough is also an accurate record of fact. The only issue would be
> if
> you reported that she 'is or was' sleeping rough when she never was. This
> would
> planely be inaccurate.
>
> Going back to the original question of who decides upon inaccuracy. The
> ultimate
> if it ever got that far would be the courts. The onus is on the data
> controller
> to take reasonable efforts to make sure that data is accurate. So long as
> you do
> take reasonable steps to make sure the data is acurate or an acurate
> reflection
> of for example a conversation then following a SAR if the customer is
> adamant
> that the information is inaccurate it is up to them to substanciate this.
> Unless
> a recording of a conversation exists it is very difficult to substanciate
> that
> what was written was not an accurate record of a conversation.
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> Ian Dean
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