What steps should institutions take to inform leavers, taking into account that data may be collected from third parties?
• Institutions are advised to inform all leavers in the target population, before they leave the institution, that they will be contacted for the purposes of obtaining data about their destinations. This includes information about how to register any concerns they might have about the data collection. An institution should generally check a leaver’s contact details for use after they leave, and at this time make the leaver aware of what these details are to be used for. • Institutions must provide collection notices at the time of data collection. This includes a notice drawn up by HESA and the statutory bodies in receipt of the data and is included within the text of the covering letter. Institutions are also advised to draw up a similar notice to cover their own purposes. • If data is collected from a third party, the interviewer should ask that the third party informs the data subject both of the fact of collection and that they can contact the institution for more information or wi
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