The DSA are not renowned for being good at data collection and retention, in 2007, 3,000,000 personal details were lost on a disc sent to the USA;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm
Although the DSA maintain the details were encrypted, no encryption is totally secure. The details lost included both learners and instructors. We feel that the DSA has no authority to send instructors data out of the country and to a place that has no data protection act.
Why does the DSA need to collect the data with regard to your pupils’ performance on test. If the DSA used the information to determine the time period between CT’s (SC’s) then they could at least have a justifiable need for the data, but we all know the time period between checks is based on your grade at your last check. So the need to associate your pupils’ performance is not used. DSA have never come up with a decent explanation as to why they need the data; it is felt they just like to micro manage every aspect of an instructors working life.
Whilst your vehicle is used on test the examiner should display their warrant card, after all they are by law the accompanying driver.
Within the RSA 2006 it also requires the badge to be displayed in a classroom should that be used or at your business premises. Not sure how you can display it in two places at the same time; if I’m instructing it will be in the vehicle so do I get a different one to display at my business premises or do I break the law.
We consider much of what is about to become law, badly thought out and written by people who have no understanding of how our businesses work in practice.
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