GDPR - CCTV footage of fights

[ozydave]

Morning,

 

Anyone have any advice on how long CCTV footage of students fighting should be kept?

 

Just thinking of a scenario, the two students have had a fight both receiving blows to the head. We have a copy of the footage stored on network, only SLT have access). The students are dealt with, expelled (or made year group leader **don't ask**). Both were checked out by school nurse.

 

Should we be keeping this footage, for say a year, in case a “medical problem” arises in one of those that have had a fight? Where’s there’s blame there’s a claim!

 

 

Cheers

[forkies]

Morning,

 

Anyone have any advice on how long CCTV footage of students fighting should be kept?

 

Just thinking of a scenario, the two students have had a fight both receiving blows to the head. We have a copy of the footage stored on network, only SLT have access). The students are dealt with, expelled (or made year group leader **don't ask**). Both were checked out by school nurse.

 

Should we be keeping this footage, for say a year, in case a “medical problem” arises in one of those that have had a fight? Where’s there’s blame there’s a claim!

 

 

Cheers

 

How long do you keep behaviour logs for?

[enjay]

This isn't really a GDPR question. Under both DPA and GDPR you keep it as long as necessary, so it is more a question of the behaviour management and/or medical reasons to keep it. At the point at which no-one needs the footage any longer, you should delete it; until then, you should keep it. There is regulation about how long you must retain paperwork relating to off-site activities where someone is seriously hurt, but I don't think that would extend to fights in the playground.

 

Of course, you could just delete your copy and then if you need refer to it again later, look at one of the many copies which will be on Facebook and Instagram from kids' phones :-)

[jthompson]

Our CCTV exports get put into a shared folder that's subject to a 30-day retention period (using FSRM). If staff dealing with an incident need to retain it longer, they know to copy the file off to another area. The vast majority of the time, stuff gets dealt with in a matter of days, people move on, and FSRM mops up. There's often not a definite end to things, which is why I don't rely on people manually deleting things they no longer need.