Richard Heath

Learning Records Service - privacy notice

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We are planning to make more use of the LRS facility to check some of our learners' history. The site includes this stipulation: "To view this learner's personal learning record, you have a legal obligation to confirm that they've seen the privacy notice". My question is whether there is a clear view on what we would need to do to make such an assurance. Would it be sufficient to send an email to all learners with a link to the notice, or would we have to hand them a copy and/or observe them actually reading it? I'm guessing that merely including a link to it in our own privacy notice would not be sufficient.

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Louise Tomkins

Hi Richard,

We attach it to our application form, all of our forms are electronically completed and signed, so when they sign, there is a declaration that they have to tick to confirm they have read the LRS privacy notice.

I believe as long as you provide it in some format and get them to confirm in a declaration that they have been provided and have read it, that should suffice.

Hope this helps

Lou

Steven Edmondson

We take a similar strategy to Louise and have also had approval that this can be done at the application stage in the past so we inform as part of our application process providing the link to the agreement.