What is a Privacy Notice?
The Information Commissioner has recommended that the term 'Fair Processing Notice' be replaced by 'Privacy Notice'. A Privacy Notice is intended to inform parents, carers and young people regarding the purposes of holding data regarding pupils and children.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is therefore adopting this approach in its data collections from now on, and has reviewed the whole process of issuing Privacy Notices
The new approach is that a single, short and easily understandable Privacy Notice can be provided to pupils by the school or Local Authority.
Parents and carers should already have received a paper copy of the Privacy Notice. through their child’s school.
More information: a list of organisations with whom data is shared
