What is the Department of Education up to with the Primary Online Database.
Simon McGarr has a hypothesis
Why is the Department of Education so determined the #POD database be established that it will threaten to defund children's education?
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
I'd have said it was blind institutional inertia. But then I read the papers on the site the Dept refers schools to re DP from the #POD site
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
Though it is always impossible to know the motivation of a gov Dept, my new theory fits all the available facts and explains #POD mysteries.
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
Dept of Ed plans to keep a database of sensitive personal data on school children goes back to at least 2008, per DPC http://t.co/euMEJTO5vO
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
2008 was the year Louise O'Keeffe lost her Supreme Court case to find the Dept liable for child abuse in school. Appealed to ECHR #POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
Some extracts from the Data Protection for Schools site written in consultation with the Dept and which they link to pic.twitter.com/Uz3wqw8dfv
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
That site advocates grossly excessive "indefinite" retention periods for sensitive data, obvs. pic.twitter.com/tuVnEfTjLW http://t.co/SWlu9LrPvu
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
Dept is also seeking to hold children's data indefinitely, per this circular. The 30yo piece is a smokescreen.
#POD pic.twitter.com/9OCK8vxsOD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
They're explicit: why hold kids records indefinitely? It is to use against them to defend abuse claims in the future. pic.twitter.com/FCaNiIz82g
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
In Jan 2014, the ECHR ruled the Dept was liable for school abuse in the O'Keeffe case. That same month, the #POD circular was issued.
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
Schools wanted a permanent database of files on children-psychological reports, special needs etc to use against kids in future abuse claims
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
And the same month the Dept became liable for claims, they also demanded kids personal sensitive data re psychological assessments etc #POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
The #POD database even has a field to store Notes on children by school staff. What would Loise O'Keeffe's Notes have looked like, I wonder?
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
In 2010 the DPC spoke out & the Dept promised not to illegally take sensitive personal data without parental consent. pic.twitter.com/PFmg56uMqu
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
They really wanted that data on kid's special needs & psychological assessments. So they decreed it wasn't sensitive personal data. #POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
And they told schools that other than race and religion, parents consent irrelevant & to transfer data to the Dept. pic.twitter.com/yxJCBIWSh5
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
When I challenged the Dept on the refusal to acknowledge that psychological & special needs data *had to be* sensitive they just denied it.
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
The Dept really want that data, and they really don't want you to be able to refuse consent for its indefinite storage
#POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
That's what leads me to believe that the Dept of Ed wants a database of material to use to defend future abuse claims so badly 1/2 #POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015
2/2 the Minister is willing to publicly defend defunding the Education of children whose parents object. #POD
— Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) February 8, 2015