Specialist settings hold more sensitive data about each pupil than anywhere else in education — EHC plans, medical records, therapy notes and multi-agency correspondence. The obligations do not change, but the judgement calls are harder and they come up more often.
Health, social care, therapists, the local authority and often a placing authority from another area. Sharing is necessary and lawful, but the agreements behind it are frequently informal, undocumented, or inherited from whoever set them up.
An education, health and care plan pulls medical, psychological and social data into one document. Requests for it can come from a parent, a young person, an advocate or a tribunal, and the right answer differs in each case.
Where a young person may not be able to exercise their own rights, someone has to decide who can act for them and record why. That assessment needs doing properly rather than defaulting to the parent.
Physical intervention logs, behaviour records and safeguarding notes are some of the most sensitive material a school will ever hold — and the most likely to be requested during a dispute.
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