UK Digital Consent 13+ Kids' Rights Explained

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Here's the thing, it might not yield the results that you want because we run into another legal nuance, which is digital consent. In the UK, children who are 13 or over are generally considered mature enough to understand their own digital rights. 13. This means that if you submit a formal subject access request for your 14-year-old the school legally has to ask your child for permission to show you the information.

[00:00:24]And if your child says no, legally there's nothing the school can do about it. There's nothing you can do about it.

[00:00:30]I've sat in meetings where parents get very, very flustered and offer some very choice adverbs demanding that we release this information, but legally we are not allowed. 13, 14, 15, they have the right to say no. And that's just the first little legal nuance.