Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

We Crossgates Primary School are a 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, any special educational needs and relevant medical information. If you are enrolling for post 14 qualifications we will be provided with your unique learner number (ULN) by the Learning Records Service and may also obtain from them details of any learning or qualifications you have undertaken.

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 information about you to the Local Authority and the Department for Education (DfE).  The LA may occasionally be required to share your personal and sensitive data with other government and/or partner agencies. The LA will only share data when there is a statutory duty or legal requirement to do so.  Any pupil data that the LA share with government and/or partner agencies will be strictly assessed and the LA will ensure that the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 are complied with.

If you want to see a copy of the information about you that we hold and/or share, please contact Mrs. McGuigan, School Administrator.

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

http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/education_and_learning/schools_and_colleges/pupil_data/data_protection_privacy_notice.aspx

And

http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/datatdatam/b00212337/datause  

If you are unable to access these websites we can send you a copy of this information. Please contact the LA or DfE as follows:

[1] Attendance information is not collected as part of the Censuses for the Department for Education for the following pupils / children - those aged under 4 years in Maintained schools and those in Alternative Provision and Early Years Settings. This footnote can be removed where Local Authorities collect such attendance information for their own specific purposes.