Data Protection and Privacy Notices
 GDPR May 2018 – for Primary Schools
 
We, Stretton St Matthew’s CE Primary School, are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.  We collect information from you, or may receive information about you from any previous school. We hold this personal data and use it to:
• support your teaching and learning
• provide appropriate pastoral care
• monitor and report on your progress
• assess how well your school is doing
 
This information includes your contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information, characteristics such as ethnic group, special educational needs and any relevant medical information.  When you enroll at our school we will be provided with your unique learner number (ULN) and may also obtain details of any learning or qualifications you may have already undertaken.
 
We are required by law to pass information to the Local Authority (LA), and Department for Education (DfE). Data is also sent to other agencies, as prescribed by law, such as the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), Ofsted, Department of Health (DfH), or Primary Care Trust (PCT). All these are data controllers for the information they receive.
 
If you want to see a copy of the information we hold and share about you then please contact Stretton St Matthew’s CE Primary School. There may be a charge for this.
 
If you require more information about how the LA and/or DfE store and use this data, please contact the following:

What happens with the data?
The Local Authority (LA) uses the information about children for whom it provides services to carry out specific functions for which it is responsible, such as the assessment of any special education needs the child may have. It also uses the information to derive statistics to inform decisions on (for example) the funding of schools, and to assess the performance of schools and set targets for them. The LA is also required to maintain the accuracy of all information held about children and young people in their area. The Local Authority (LA) may also share information with other LA’s.

DfE is the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. DfE uses information about pupils for research and statistical purposes, to inform, influence and improve education policy and to monitor the performance of the education service as a whole.

Pupil information may be matched with other data sources that DfE holds in order to model and monitor their educational progression and to provide comprehensive information back to LAs and learning institutions to support their day to day business. DfE may also use contact details from these sources to obtain samples for statistical surveys which may be carried out by research agencies working under contract to DfE. Participation in such surveys is usually voluntary. DfE may also match data from these sources to data obtained from statistical surveys.

Pupil data may also be shared with other Government Departments and Agencies including Office for National Statistics, FFT and Aspire, ASP and IDSR, will use the data for statistical or research purposes only. In all these cases the matching will require that individualised data is used in the processing operation, but that data will not be processed in such a way that it supports measures or decisions relating to particular individual pupils or identifies individuals in any results. This data sharing will be approved and controlled by DfE’s Chief Statistician.

DFE may also disclose individual pupil information to independent researchers into the educational achievements of pupils who have a legitimate need for it for their research, but each case will be determined on its merits and subject to the approval of DfE’s Chief Statistician. DfE's powers to pass data to researchers are derived from The Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations. These Regulations restrict the researchers who may receive data to 'persons conducting research into the educational achievements of pupils and who require individual pupil information for that purpose'.

The school is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act and pupils, as data subjects, have certain rights under the Data Protection Act, including a general right of access to personal data held on them, with parents exercising this right on their behalf if they are too young (under 12) to do so themselves. If you wish to access the personal data which DfE hold about your child, then please contact them direct.

As the law allows pupil data can be sent to the following third party organisations. A brief description of the purposes the information is used for is set out below, along with links to the organisations as detailed below:
Department of Health (DfH) uses anonymised information about pupils' height and weight collected in primary and middle schools as part of the National Child Measurement Programme to inform, influence and improve health policy. The Department of Health also provides aggregate PCT-level data to the Care Quality Commission for performance assessment of the health service. www.dh.gov.uk

Primary Care Trusts (PCT) use information about pupils for research and statistical purposes, to monitor the performance of local health services and to evaluate and develop them. The statistics are used in such a way that individual pupils cannot be identified from them.  Information on the height and weight of individual pupils may however be provided to the child and its parents/carers and this will require the PCTs to maintain details of pupils’ names for this purpose for a period designated by Department of Health following the weighing and measuring process. PCTs may also provide individual schools and LAs with aggregate information on pupils’ height and weight.

Ofsted uses information about the progress and performance of pupils to help inspectors evaluate the work of schools, to assist schools in their self-evaluation, and as part of their assessment of the effectiveness of education initiatives and policy. Ofsted also uses information about the views of children and young people to inform children's services inspections in local authority (LA) areas. Inspection reports do not identify individual pupils. The Department for Education also provides Ofsted with pupil data for use in school inspection.  www.ofsted.gov.uk

The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Authority (QCDA) uses information about pupils to administer the national curriculum assessments portfolio throughout Key Stages 1 to 3. This includes both assessments required by statute and those that are optional. The results of these are passed on to the Department for Education to compile statistics on trends and patterns in levels of achievement.

The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) and the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) uses information about pupils to administer the national curriculum assessments portfolio throughout the Key Stages. The results of these are passed on to DFE to compile statistics on trends and patterns in levels of achievement. The QCA uses the information to evaluate the effectiveness of the national curriculum and the associated assessment arrangements, and to ensure that these are continually improved. www.qca.org.uk and/or www.jcq.org.uk