I'd see the starting point as explaining the situation. There's a number of ways that can be done, which may be to publish a 'know your rights' factsheet on the school website, or it may be something that you issue to all family groups where those with PR are not living together. You may want to create a policy which allows the school to inform one parent if the other parent makes a request for particular info. Obviously that will need to be considered for legal basis, I'm just thinking of some ideas.
In practice you may well end up assisting someone (in particular a child) to move through their rights. For some children and family situations that may require support and guidance from a teacher/school. Whether that would be considered 'coaching' in a bad sense would depend on circumstances. But I think there would be a lot of leeway for a teacher/school to support a child, especially where covered by the Children Acts and the need to support a child to their full potential (I forget the exact language of the Act). In some cases you will have one or both parents raising an issue very early, along the lines of what they do or don't want to happen (don't tell my ex about so and so), and at that point you could explain some of the things you are required to do and how the rights of the individuals have an effect on what you can do.
As long as the organisation could prove a supportive and non-coercive relationship, assisting a child to understand their rights is what the legislation and the ICO guidance wants us to do. Whether with my example, or with the safeguarding or stalking examples, these will be obviously be nuanced situations, but possible to work through.
Victoria Blyth
Information Strategy Manager (Interim Data Protection Officer)
Information Management Team
London Borough of Barnet, North London Business Park, Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP
Tel: 020 8359 2015
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Non-resident parental access to child's educational record
Interesting point.
Would you in practice "coach" the pupil to register an objection. Without an objection, absent a safeguarding point, you are (legally at least) limited in ability to refuse and most pupils would not have the knowledge to make the required objection.
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