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ChrisW:
My apologies, I thought it was a developing discussion.

Bulli:
Intresting debate. I work for a bank and deal with the dpa and I would say that the dpa doesnt really apply here. The Dpa is about information held electronically(computer or video) or on paper.Childrens first names are definately public knowledge.
There may be a school or local government policy that says not to give out first names, the teacher may simply be covering her back. I can understand why in the claim culture we live in.
I know that there was no malice, the opposite infact, but you cant have a rule that changes dependant upon circumstances.
Several times a day i get into heated debates with partners who "know all about the account and just want to check X" sorry but the data protection commisioner can have me sacked and personally fined up to 10k..... not nice.

ChrisW:
Nothing to do with the Data Protection Act whatsoever, all this is covered under the Children Act and The Child Protection Act amongst other things.

Let say an offender goes into a classroom, chats to a teacher, pretends to be a parent to find out a childs first name. Goes back the next day talks to the child, calls the childs name and tells them their Mum has asked them to fetch them home from school.

All because a teacher gave out a childs first name in all innocence  :evil:

Sheddy:
I used to belong to a voluntary service organisation.  We used to do stuff like  makeovers on old peoples gardens, build ramps for the old 'uns to improve access to thier houses and taking underpriveledged kids out for the day to the zoo or suchlike.  Basically, anything and everything that the social services told us was needed.

Because of the D.P.A. the social services etc. are no longer allowed to pass on the information and the club has folded.

discomummy:
Hi,

I have to say that i cannot see a problem with handing out kids first names to a parent known to the teacher, but if the person is not known, then no details should be given.  I have asked for the same information from my children's teacher (to avoid offending a child/parent) and the teacher (because he knows me only too well - i am one of those involved parents) was more than happy to correct my spelling of the name.

i certainly would be very unhappy to think that the school would be handing out information to anyone, but in a situation like the original one, i could not see - as a parent- a real issue with this, however the spellings i get of Jodie are imaginative at times.  

with regards to the issue of the bank situation - whilst i understand entirely the problems the bank employees face,  i suspect most of the people who phone are wives like me, who are not the major wage earner and therefore are not the account holder in credit cards, but have a husband who does not want to be bothered with phoning up and says "you do it for me, i don't want to".  I look after the finances and usually phone up, hand the phone to geoff who answers all the questions and then says talk to my wife, i don't want to know about this!!!!  and then i still get asked, do you have the account holders permission to discuss this, at which point geoff usually explodes!!!!  the vast majority are not attempting to defraud their partners!!

however, i still think that we are falling into a swamp of bureaucracy, and for those who feel like leaving a sinking ship - i lived for 16 years in Australia and it is no better there, in fact in some ways they have taken this system and doubled it!

regards

ela

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