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20th April 2021

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ICO Guidance on access to records published

Monday, 07 December 2020 by Peter Garsden

Guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office about responding to an individual’s asking to see what personal data an organisation holds about them

The ICO in October 2020 issued guidance about how organisation should respond to a Subject Access Request. The link is here:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/right-of-access/

ACRCG responded to the consultation in detail (see our previous post with a link to our response to the consultation), and we are pleased that points we made have been taken up. Although the guidance is not specifically designed to meet the rights of adult care leavers, it has some useful messages for organisations to take on board.

Key messages in the guidance:

  • it is a fundamental right of all individuals to know what personal information [data] the organisation holds about them
  • a request for this information does not have to be in writing: organisations cannot insist on this but it may be useful to record that a request has been made
  • the organisation cannot charge a fee and must provide the personal data within 20 working days
  • names of person recording personal data about an individual in a professional capacity should be shared with the individual making the request.

We had made this point very strongly because it is most important and here’s the example given in the guidance:

“….it is reasonable for the council to provide the social worker’s personal data to the requester in response to the subject access request. However, the council must either have the consent of the family member, or consider whether it is reasonable to disclose their personal data without consent. If the council does not have consent, it is likely that it needs to reconcile the individual’s right of access in respect of any duty of confidence owed to the family member.”

It remains to be seen, of course, how the guidance will be interpreted by individual local authority departments and will, no doubt dictate further attention by our Association.

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MIRRA – Memory- Identity – Rights in Records – Access

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 by Peter Garsden
Worksheet at the Post Care Forum

n 2017 we teamed up with University College London who are carrying out a 2 year research project properly funded into the accessing of records with particular emphasis on care records and care leavers experiences.

MIRRA is a research project that aims to support the rights of care leavers by exploring how child social care records have been created, kept and used in public and voluntary organisations in England from the mid-20th century to the present day.  The acronym stands for Memory – Identity – Rights in Records – Access.  It is a participatory action research project co-produced with care leavers in partnership with the Care Leavers Association. Ultimately it aims to make positive changes to social care record keeping and through those changes improve the care leavers’ experiences.

A history of the research can be seen on the MIRRA Blog here

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