24. Investigate/test a register of pupil information

Preliminary description (Torbjørn):

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Lotte Otelie Sørensen (KS Digital):

Hi!

I have a suggestion for SAMT-BU for when you discuss further prioritisation in the project.

I have tried searching for some inspiration on this topic of registers, and the ones I have found so far are much more limited in scope than what seems to be needed here. That is, if the project is to create a register, we will probably have to ask for something more extensive than what is usually granted, and then we will need good justifications on the legal side.

There are many good reasons why people are cautious about registers of individuals, and as you touched on, we can use experience from regulations that have been adopted (and those that were not!) to identify the barriers. What is it that prevents us from having national registers? We can learn a lot from what has been done before.

And then to SAMT-BU’s role in this: we have gathered an incredible number of actors from many places, and we are in a unique position precisely because we can cover several sectors. It would be really great if the project did not just deliver “which regulation do we need”, but also pointed to some measures that can be taken to safeguard privacy in the regulation as well – because that could potentially become an obstacle to getting it.

This is, however, a big challenge, and it will take a fair amount of resources to look into it.

So, to be concrete, my suggestion is that, if there is room for it, a dedicated pilot could be devoted to looking at this specifically. We need to find out more about what it should be, who it is important to involve, and so on. The important thing in any case is that in that pilot the legal aspect must not be a supporting process, but the main deliverable that everything else scales out from.

That probably wasn’t very clear. We can have a chat about it if you like