In May 2018, the government brought into force UK General Data Protection Regulations with a view to safeguarding people's personal information. This placed extra duties on schools and other institutions which handle personal data. In the main, this necessitates only collecting information which is needed to perform our duties, putting in place measures to keep information safe and secure, only keeping hold of data as long as is necessary and disposing of information properly.
We have held a full external UK GDPR audit and put in place the recommendations that were made. In light of this, we have drawn up the following policies which (with our Privacy Notices) set out what we do to keep your information safe. If you have any questions about how or why we collect or hold data that you feel are not answered within these documents, please don't hesitate to contact us.
The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is responsible for overseeing data protection policies and guidelines.
Please contact the DPO with any questions about the operation of this Data Protection Policy or the UK GDPR or if you have any concerns that this policy is not being or has not been followed.
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
The school has an independent Data Protection Officer service supplied by Global Policing Limited. Global Policing is an organisation run by ex-senior police officers who specialise in working with schools and have vast experience of data protection matters. If you have any questions or comments, or wish to make any requests under the Regulations, you should contact them directly:
Please find below our Freedom of Information Policy which contains details of how to make an FOI request.