08 Apr Further state encroachment into learners’ lives – worrying developments

A Welsh Government consultation will mandate sharing of young people's data, including confidential medical data, without consent, or even their knowledge, with local authorities' education departments. This appears to be an attempt to further encroach on the parental duty to make the decision concerning, and then to secure, a suitable education for their child/ren, and in particular a back door into non-consensual data collection about children being educated otherwise than in school. This is being proposed despite the fact that the vast majority of "Children Missing Education" are known to be on a school roll, but not attending. An earlier version...