Data Protection Act

 

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

 

Sacred Heart Primary School is the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect information from you and may receive information about you from your previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data and use it to:

 

·              Support your teaching and learning;

·              Monitor and report on your progress;

·              Provide appropriate pastoral care, and

·              Assess how well your school is doing.

 

This information includes your contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information [1] and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, special educational needs and any relevant medical information.

 

We will not give information about you to anyone outside the school without your consent unless the law and our rules allow us to.

 

We are required by law to pass some of your information to the Local Authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE) 

 

If you want to see a copy of the information we hold and share about you then please contact Mrs Tuck in the school office.

 

If you require more information about how the LA and/or DfE store and use your information, then please go to the following websites:

 

                         http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/mb-dp/ and


                         http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/ims/datamanagement/privacynotices/pupilsdata/

 

                         http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/ims/datamanagement/privacynotices/pupilsdata/thirdpartyorgs/

 

If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE as follows:

·        Data Protection Officer

IT Services

PO Box 17

Rede House

69-71 Corporation Road

Middlesbrough

TS1 2YW

 

 

·              Public Communications Unit
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT

       Website:                 www.education.gov.uk

       email:                    info@education.gsi.gov.uk  
Telephone:  0870 000 2288

 

DCSF Guidance on Subject Access Request (Autumn 2009)

It is anticipated that staff, and young people over the age of 12 with the maturity to make their own decisions, should generally be able to request to see their personal information themselves under the Subject Access Provisions (S.7) of the Data Protection Act. For young people under 12, their parents will act on their behalf. In any event, it will be for the school, as data controller, to assess whether the child is capable of understanding the personal information in question, and so decide whether the parent needs to make the request on the child's behalf.

 

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[1] Attendance information is not collected for pupils under 5 at Early Years Settings or Maintained Schools