GDPR - Data Protection

The school is currently following Leicestershire Local Authority guidelines with regards to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and its effect on schools. 

 

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

We Ibstock Junior School are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect information from you about your child/children and may receive information about your child/children from a previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data and use it to:

  • Support your child/children’s teaching and learning
  • Monitor and report on their progress
  • Provide appropriate pastoral care
  • Assess how well the school is doing

This information includes your child/children’s contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information and personal characteristics such as ethnic group, any special educational needs and relevant medical information.

We will not give information about your child/children 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 this information to the Local Authority and the Department for Education (DfE) 

If you want to see a copy of the information about your child/children that we hold and/or share, please contact Mr Phil Lewin.

If you require more information about how the School/ DfE /Local Authority/ ty (LA) and/or DfE store and use this information, then please go to the following websites:

http://www.leics.gov.uk/schoolsfpn 

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