Privacy Notice

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data.

We, Saint Paul’s Catholic High School, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data

protection law.

Our data protection officer is Mrs Marion Fletcher (see ‘Contact us’ below).

Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (when appropriate) about pupils

includes, but is not restricted to:

 Contact details, contact preferences, date of birth, identification documents

 Results of internal assessments and externally set tests

 Pupil and curricular records

 Characteristics, such as ethnic background, eligibility for free school meals, or special

educational needs

 Exclusion information

 Details of any medical conditions, including physical and mental health

 Attendance information

 Safeguarding information

 Details of any support received, including care packages, plans and support providers

 Photographs

 CCTV images captured in school

We may also hold data about pupils that we have received from other organisations, including other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education.

We use this data to:

 Support pupil learning

 Monitor and report on pupil progress

 Provide appropriate pastoral care

 Protect pupil welfare

 Assess the quality of our services

 Administer admissions waiting lists

 Carry out research

 Comply with the law regarding data sharing

Our legal basis for using this data

We only collect and use personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we process it where:

 We need to comply with a legal obligation

 We need it to perform an official task in the public interest

Less commonly, we may also process pupils’ personal data in situations where:

 We have obtained consent to use it in a certain way

 We need to protect the individual’s vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where we have obtained consent to use personal data, this consent can be withdrawn at any time. We will make this clear when we ask for consent, and explain how consent can be withdrawn.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal data overlap, and

there may be several grounds which justify our use of this data.

While the majority of information we collect is mandatory, there is some information that can be provided voluntarily.  Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether providing it is mandatory or optional. If it is mandatory, we will explain the possible consequences of not complying.

We keep personal information about pupils while they are attending our school. We may also keep it beyond their attendance at our school if this is necessary in order to comply with our legal obligations. Our record retention management policy sets out how long we keep information.

A copy of the Trust’s record retention policy and schedule can be obtained from our data

protection officer.

We do not share information with any third party without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so. Where it is legally required, or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information about pupils with:

 Our local authority in order to meet our legal obligations to share certain information  with it, such as safeguarding concerns and exclusions

 The Department for Education

 The pupil’s family and representatives to comply with our education information

regulations

 Educators and examining bodies to complying with our legal obligations and

requirements

 Ofsted who is our regulator

 Suppliers and service providers to enable them to provide the service we have

contracted them for

 Financial organisations to comply with the Education and Funding Skills Agency (EFSA)

requirements

 Central and local government to comply with our legal duties and requirements

 Our auditors to fulfill our financial obligations

 Survey and research organisations where required and deemed appropriate

 Health authorities in order to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as health and safety and safeguarding concerns

 Security organisations to ensure the health and safety and safeguarding of our pupils,

employees, community and visitors to the school

 Health and social welfare organisations in order to meet our legal obligations to share

certain information with it, such as health and safety and safeguarding concerns

 Professional advisers and consultants to ensure the highest possible pupil attainment

 Charities and voluntary organisations when necessary

 Police forces, courts, tribunals as legally required

 Professional bodies to enable them to carry out their responsibilities

We are required to provide information about pupils to the Department for Education as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years census.

Some of this information is then stored in the National Pupil Database (NPD), which is owned and managed by the Department and provides evidence on school performance to inform research.

The database is held electronically so it can easily be turned into statistics. The information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and exam boards.

The Department for Education may share information from the NPD with other organisations which promote children’s education or wellbeing in England. Such organisations must agree to strict terms and conditions about how they will use the data.

For more information, see the Department’s webpage on how it collects and shares research data.

You can also contact the Department for Education with any further questions about the NPD.

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal

information that the school holds about them.

Parents/carers can make a request with respect to their child’s data where the child is not considered mature enough to understand their rights over their own data (usually under the age of 12), or where the child has provided consent.

If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you or your child, we will:

 Give you a description of it

 Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for

 Explain where we got it from, if not from you or your child

 Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with

 Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this

 Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

Individuals also have the right for their personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances. If you would like to make a request please contact our data protection officer.

There is no legal right for parents/carers to access their child’s educational record if their child attends an English academy, a free school or an independent school. As an academy, we will consider each request on its own merit.

We will provide an annual written report of each registered pupil’s progress and

attainment in the main subject areas taught, to the parents of that registered pupil

(except that no report need be provided where the parent has agreed otherwise). 

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe, including the right to:

 Object to the use of personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress

 Prevent it being used to send direct marketing

 Object to decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)

 In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing

 Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our data protection officer.

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or

inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our data protection officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

 Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

 Call 0303 123 1113

 Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,

Cheshire, SK9 5AF

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything

mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our data protection officer:

 Mrs Marion Fletcher c/o St Paul’s Catholic High School, Firbank Road, Newall Green,

Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 2YS

This notice is based on the Department for Education’s model privacy notice for pupils,

amended for parents and to reflect the way we use data in this school and within the Trust.