What is UK-GDPR?

UK-GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation

UK-GDPR replaced the provisions of the European GDPR when the UK left the European Union.

What does this mean for schools?

Schools handle a large amount of personal data.  This includes information on pupils, such as grades, medical information, images and much more.  Schools will also hold data on staff, governors, volunteers and job applicants.

Schools will also handle what the UK-GDPR refers to as sensitive data, which is subject to tighter controls.  This could be details on race, ethnic origin or biometric data.

Data Protection

As every school collates, processes and shares data about pupils, please find information regarding our privacy notices and policies below.

What is a privacy notice?

A Privacy Notice is a statement issued by an organisation which explains how personal and confidential data about individuals is collected, used and shared.

Who is collecting and using your personal data?

Old Clee Primary Academy will act as a “Data Controller” for any personal data that you provide to us. We will ensure that the data given to us is processed in line with our Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 18) and the EU General Data Protection Regulations. (GDPR).

What is personal data?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession.

The processing of data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”).