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?
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.