Privacy Policy
Ridgeway Education Trust Privacy Notices
Privacy notice employees, workers, contractors and volunteers
Requesting access to your personal data
Under data protection legislation, parents and pupils have the right to request access to information about them that we hold (Subject Access Request). To make a request for your personal information, or be given access to your child’s educational record, contact:
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School Data Protection Lead |
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All Saints CofE Primary School |
lrob1234@all-saints.oxon.sch.uk | 01235 819143 |
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Didcot Girls’ School |
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| Long Wittenham CofE Primary School | office.3233@long-wittenham.oxon.sch.uk | 01865 407850 |
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St Birinus School |
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Sutton Courtenay CofE Primary School |
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Data Protection Officer |
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Phone |
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Robert Majilton |
gdpr@ridgewayeducation.com |
You also have the right to:
- object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
- prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
- object to decisions being taken by automated means
- in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
- a right to seek redress, either through the ICO, or through the courts
If you have a concern or complaint about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we encourage you to raise your concern with us in the first instance. You have right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office directly at:
Department for Education
The Department for Education (DfE) collects personal data from educational settings and local authorities via various statutory data collections. This data sharing underpins school funding and educational attainment policy and monitoring. We are required to share information about our pupils with the DfE either directly or via our local authority under regulation 5 of The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.
All data is transferred securely and held by DfE under a combination of software and hardware controls, which meet the current government security policy framework.
Government Security Policy Framework
For more information, please see ‘How Government uses your data’ section.
How the Government uses your data
The pupil data that we lawfully share with the DfE through data collections:
- underpins school funding, which is calculated based upon the numbers of children and their characteristics in each school.
- informs ‘short term’ education policy monitoring and school accountability and intervention (for example, school GCSE results or Pupil Progress measures).
- supports ‘longer term’ research and monitoring of educational policy (for example how certain subject choices go on to affect education or earnings beyond school)
Data collection requirements
To find out more about the data collection requirements placed on us by the Department for Education (for example; via the school census) go to:
The National Pupil Database (NPD)
Much of the data about pupils in England goes on to be held in the National Pupil Database (NPD). The NPD is owned and managed by the Department for Education and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the Department.
It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and awarding bodies.
To find out more about the NPD, go to:
Sharing by the Department
The law allows the Department to share pupils’ personal data with certain third parties, including:
- schools
- local authorities
- researchers
- organisations connected with promoting the education or wellbeing of children in England
- other government departments and agencies
- organisations fighting or identifying crime
For more information about the Department’s NPD data sharing process, please visit:
Organisations fighting or identifying crime may use their legal powers to contact DfE to request access to individual-level information relevant to detecting that crime. Whilst numbers fluctuate slightly over time, DfE typically supplies data on around 600 pupils per year to the Home Office and roughly 1 per year to the Police.
For information about which organisations the Department has provided pupil information, (and for which project) or to access a monthly breakdown of data share volumes with Home Office and the Police please visit the following website:
Contact
If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything in this privacy notice, please contact:
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School Data Protection Lead |
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Phone |
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| All Saints CofE Primary School | lrob1234@all-saints.oxon.sch.uk | 01235 819143 |
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Didcot Girls’ School |
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| Long Wittenham CofE Primary School | office.3233@long-wittenham.oxon.sch.uk | 01865 407850 |
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St Birinus School |
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Sutton Courtenay CofE Primary School |
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Data Protection Officer |
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Phone |
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Robert Majilton |
For more information you can find the Trust Data Protection Policy on our website. This notice is based on the Department for Education’s model privacy notice, amended to reflect the way we use data in this school.
