You should be sending them to WHQ. You have no idea if an issue will come up later as not reported at the time. Wings were told to adopt this policy years ago.
Unless you have a statute of limitations, document retention timescales is a minefield.
Given that most people seem to wait for decades before pursuing something.
We send things to Wing but god knows where they keep the acres of paper.
He shouldn’t - he doesn’t have a WHQ.
Correct. Plus, what issue could arise that required a consent form? Surely the only thing you need it for would be if a parent said you took their child with you without their consent, so retention of a month would be considered adequate.
Our document retention policy explicitly states that consent forms are to be destroyed when the event is over. Many schools share the same policy for school trips. It is interesting that your policy is so different!
By “consent form” in this context we include the TG21 cadet consent form and TG23 medical declaration forms under the one generalisation.
I’m all for destruction unless there is some reason to retain it, but as people have been known to wait for months before raising a concern it is probably safest to retain these forms for a reasonable period of time.
My error. Apologies
You need to take into account the infliction that affects HQAC, known as twitchy sphincter.