Can't fault your argument. Has no-one behind the plan thought that these
young adults just might not want their parents looking at their academic
records?
Donald Henderson
Information Compliance Manager
Perth and Kinross Council
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Subject: [data-protection] Parental access to student information
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Hi there,
We are an FE college dealing mostly with students of 16+ though there
are a number of 14-16 students sent here by schools.
There is a cunning plan to allow remote parental access to students'
academic records and there seems to be an assumption that we can do this
without any further consent from the students. I've disagreed and taken
the following stance:
"The data subject (the student) will be required to give consent before
a parent may access their records since there is no exclusion by which
we could disclose this data to a third party (the parent) without it.
This applies to any student over the age of 12 (the age by which the ICO
says a child becomes independent).
Note that in a school environment (only) the Education (Pupil
Information) (England) Regulations 2005 come into play which give a
parent the right of access whilst the child is in school.
If a student is sent to us from school then we will likely be in a
data-processor arrangement for the personal data (educational record)
held by the school. If a parent wants access to that data then it must
be made through the school and we must not disclose the data directly."
Can anyone please comment as to whether this position stands up to
scrutiny?
Best wishes,
Jon
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