We had a situation arise recently where a student's partner
contacted us to tell us that he was suffering from a serious medical problem
necessitating additional support at residential school. The student was
apparently unaware of the problem & the partner tried to isist that he must
not know of it or where the info about it came from.
From a dp point of view, this sort of 'secret' processing would be
contrary to the principles and my view was therefore that we could not
record the info or offer support without the student knowing.
A question which subsequently arose was whether we could be liable
in other ways e.g under the Disability Act if we had been made aware such a
situation and did nothing about it. I understand the latter makes no
reference to third party info though?
Any thoughts/advice?
Gail Waters
DP Coordinator
Open UNiversity
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