Yeah, you’re right. I knew it was 7 years after they turn 18, but I’m tired and wrote 27 
I did 20 + 7…
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Moving back to Westminster - with the introduction of MyCadet & electronic parental consent - is the data retention policy for Westminster events the same as bader or has it become irrelevant?
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Event data retention is less of an issue because you aren’t really storing personal data. With everything now electronic, the fact that consent has been given is just a flag in the database, with an ID to link to the person who gave consent. You don’t store any personal data on the record of the actual event. This is different to a situation where you would have a paper consent form, which will likely include personal data for the cadet and the next of kin, and is a secondary copy. Our view of these consent forms was that there was no point keeping them beyond the event itself. After the event, they were destroyed. If you want to keep the consent form to show consent, obviously moving to an electronic consent method gives big benefits for data security.
As an aside, the furthest I can go back myself and look at an event is 2022, but I assume we are still storing that data somewhere.
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There are a number of variations in relation to how we administer the organisations, whilst some elements of how we operate are advised by MOD Reserve Forces & Cadets, lots of what we do is directed by our single services and in the case of the sea cadets being a standalone charity, the variations can be significant at times.
Whilst our parent services operate in a purple environment, they are not administered as such and interoperability between different systems and processes across the single services is often a real challenge.
Access to modnet is not an option currently, modnet has significant restrictions in place and whilst access would prove to be helpful, it isn’t our gift to provide. The CadetNet project proposal would help in making the case for access to a number of services accessed through Defence Gateway if it comes to fruition.
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Can CCFs with army SSIs access Bader?
As in can the CCF section/contigent access bader, or can the SSI specifically access it?
We have an army SSI, I know that he doesn’t have access to Bader, although our contingent commander (also army) does have an account.
A quick bader email search shows SSI email addresses with SSgt rank
I believe if a CCF has an RAF then the SSI is given an email address & sms role account even if the SSi is army.
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As in CCFs that have RAF sections, but whose SSI is Army