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Devonshire Infant School Privacy Notice
How We Use Pupil Information This notice is to help you understand how and why we collect personal information about our pupils and their families and what we do with that information. Personal information is information that identifies an individual and relates to that person. This includes paper records, photographs, voice recordings and videos. Why do we collect and use pupil information? We use the pupil data:
Personal information will only be collected and used with your consent or where it is needed by the school or the local authority to comply with a legal obligation, for example, the Education Act 1999, which requires the collection of pupil data for school census purposes.
The categories of pupil information that we collect, hold and share include:
The lawful basis on which we use this information We collect and use pupil information under Article 6 and Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation. We only collect and use pupils’ personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process it where:
Less commonly, we may also process pupils’ personal data in situations where:
Where we have obtained consent to use pupils’ personal data, this consent can be withdrawn at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for consent, and explain how consent can be withdrawn. Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using pupils’ personal data overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify our use of this data.
Collecting pupil information Whilst the majority of pupil information you provide to us is mandatory, some of it is provided to us on a voluntary basis. In order to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, we will inform you whether you are required to provide certain pupil/personal information to us or if you have a choice in this. The main method that we use to collect data about you and your child is via our Pupil Registration Form and Welcome Booklet which you will complete when your child starts with us and which gives more information about why data is being collected and gives you the option to give your consent.
Storing pupil data We hold pupil data for as long as necessary in order to educate and care for your child. We need to retain some information after your child has left the school, in line with the Retention Guidelines published by the Information and Records Management Society.
Who do we share pupil information with? We routinely share pupil information with:
Why we share pupil information We do not share information about our pupils with anyone without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so. We share pupils’ data with the Department for Education (DfE) on a statutory basis. This data sharing underpins school funding and educational attainment policy and monitoring. We are required to share information about our pupils with our Local Authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE) under section 3 of The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013. Under the public duties of the Portsmouth Local Authority for improving education standards in Portsmouth, relevant personal information (name and address) will be passed to the Library Service to enable them to issue all Reception year pupils with their own library card. Under the public duties of the Portsmouth Local Authority for moderating teacher assessments in Portsmouth, relevant personal information (UPN, name, subject and result) will be passed to our moderators from Southampton City Council in order for them to carry out their contracted duties on behalf of Portsmouth Local Authority.
Data collection requirements: To find out more about the data collection requirements placed on us by the Department for Education (for example; via the school census) go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools.
The National Pupil Database (NPD) The NPD is owned and managed by the Department for Education and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the Department. It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and awarding bodies. We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013. To find out more about the pupil information we share with the department, for the purpose of data collections, go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools. To find out more about the NPD, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-user-guide-and-supporting-information. The department may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being of children in England by:
The Department has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data. Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict approval process and based on a detailed assessment of:
To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data. For more information about the department’s data sharing process, please visit: For information about which organisations the department has provided pupil information, (and for which project), please visit the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received To contact DfE: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe
Requesting access to your personal data Under data protection legislation, parents and pupils have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. You are entitled to submit requests all year round, but please bear in mind that it may be necessary for us to extend the response period when requests are submitted over the summer holidays. This is in accordance with article 12(3) of the GDPR, and will be the case where the request is complex, for example, where we need multiple staff to collect the data.
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You also have the right to:
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Contact: If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact:
If you need more information about how our local authority and/or DfE collect and use your information, please see the Portsmouth City Council Data Protection Privacy Notice Or visit:
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