PRIVACY NOTICE for Pupils at Mandeville Primary School

 

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

 

We, Mandeville Primary School, are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect personal information from you and may receive information about your child/children from previous schools. We hold this personal data to:

 

•  Support your learning;
• Monitor and report on your progress;
•  Provide appropriate pastoral care, and
•  Assess how well we are doing.

 

The information includes your child/children’s contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information[1] and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, any special educational needs you may have and relevant medical information.

 

We will not give information about your child/children to anyone without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to

 

We are required by law to pass some information about your child/children to our Local Authority (LA) and the Department for Education.

 

We are required by law to pass some information about your child/children to the Department for Education (DfE) and, in turn, this will be available for the use(s) of the Local Authority.

 

If you want to receive a copy of the information we hold or share about your child(ren), please contact Mrs Cathy Longhurst, Head Teacher.

 

If you need more information about how the Local Authority and DfE store and use this information, then please go to the following websites

http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/edlearn/privsch/ [2] and

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data

 

If you cannot access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE as follows:

 

Data Protection Team

Information Governance Unit