Pupils’ and Children’s Data
Schools collect and hold a lot of information about their pupils. This is passed on to the Department for Education (DfE) and other organisations. You have rights to know what information is held about your child. Data Protection legislation sets clear rules about what information can be collected and held about pupils.
Schools issue Privacy Notices to parents, usually when their children start school, explaining what data is collected about pupils, why it is collected and to which bodies it is sent.
The Local Authority (LA) uses information about children for whom it provides services, to enable it to carry out specific functions for which it is responsible, such as the assessment of any special educational needs the child may have. It also uses the information to derive statistics to inform decisions on (for example) the funding of schools and to assess the performance of schools. The statistics are used in such a way that individual children cannot be identified from them.
Further information on the organisations with which the LA share data can be found here:
Children in need or children in care of the Local Authority
Warrington Borough Council also holds personal data about our children in care or those children to whom we provide services. The information is used to support children and monitor their progress, provide appropriate support and pastoral care, and assess how well the Local Authority services as a whole are doing. For more details about what we do with the data, please see the Privacy Notice below.
School workforce
The Local Authority will use information about its school workforce for research and statistical purposes, and to evaluate and develop education policy and strategies. The statistics are used in such a way that individual staff cannot be indentified from them. The LA may also use it to support and monitor schools regarding sickness and recruitment of staff.