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Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998 Date Posted: 14/12/2009

 

Lancot Lower School

 

 

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

 

We, Lancot Lower School, are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.  We collect information about you and your child from you, and may receive information about your child from your previous school.  We hold this personal data and use it to:

 

  • support your child's teaching and learning;
  • monitor and report on your child's progress;
  • provide appropriate pastoral care, and
  • assess how well our school is doing.

 

This information includes your child's contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information A, characteristics such as ethnic group, special educational needs and any relevant medical information.

 

We will not give information about you or your child to anyone outside the school without your consent unless the law and our rules permit it.

We are required by law to pass some of your information to the Local Authority (LA), and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). 

 

If you want to see a copy of the information we hold and share about you and your child, then please contact Mrs A Gibbs

 

If you require more information about how the LA and/or DCSF store and use this data please go to the following websites:

 

  • www.lancotlowerschool.co.uk or
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/13856/DCSF%20what%20we%20do%20with%20Children's%20data%20v4%20final.doc

 

 

If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the DCSF as follows:

 

  • Public Communications Unit
    Department for Children, Schools and Families
    Sanctuary Buildings
    Great Smith Street
    London
    SW1P 3BT

website:           http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/

email:              mailto:info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk 
tel:                   0870 000 2288.

 

 

 

 



A Attendance information is not collected for pupils under 5 at Early Years Settings or Maintained Schools

 


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Lancot Drive,
Dunstable,
Bedfordshire
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