GDPR

Privacy Notice for  

Minster Church of England Primary School & Monkton Church of England Primary School 

This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how we collect, how we use and may share information about you.  We are required to give you this information under data protection law. 

Who are we? 

Minster & Monkton CE P Schools collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK DGPR) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. Our Data Protection Officers are Adam Halsey & Stacy Williams of Invicta Law Ltd. 

The personal information we collect and use 

Information collected by us 

In the course of providing education we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us: 

• personal identifiers and contacts (such as name, unique pupil number, contact details and address) 

• characteristics (such as ethnicity, language etc) 

• safeguarding information (such as court orders and professional involvement) 

• free school meal eligibility 

• special educational needs (including the needs and ranking) 

• medical and administration (such as doctors information, child health, dental health, allergies, medication and dietary requirements) 

• attendance (such as sessions attended, number of absences, absence reasons and any previous schools attended) 

• assessment and attainment (such as key stage 1 and phonics results, post 16 courses enrolled for and any relevant results) 

• National Curriculum assessment results 

We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:  

• Personal information, special category information, assessment results and SEN information from schools that you previously attended 

• Service support and involvement information from KCC teams working to improve outcomes for children and young people (such as SEND, Early Help, Free School Meals, Admissions) 

How we use your personal information 

We use your personal information to:  

• support pupil learning 

• monitor and report on pupil progress 

• moderate teacher assessment judgements 

• provide appropriate pastoral care and support services 

• assess the quality of our services 

• comply with the law regarding data sharing 

• support you to decide what to do after you leave school  

• support or improve educational provision 

• ensure no children are missing education 

• support children at risk of permanent exclusion 

• support the primary, secondary and in-year admissions process 

• safeguard children and young people 

• improve the education and services we provide 

• to meet the statutory duties placed upon us for the Department for Education (DfE) data collections 

 
How long your personal data will be kept 
 
We will hold your personal information securely and retain it from the child/young person’s date of birth until they reach the age of 25, after which the information is archived or securely destroyed.   
 
Reasons we can collect and use your personal information 
 
We collect and use pupil information under section 537A of the Education Act 1996, section 83 of the Children Act 1989, and to carry out tasks in the public interest.  

If we need to collect special category (sensitive) personal information, we rely upon reasons of substantial public interest (equality of opportunity or treatment). 

If there is processing or sharing that relies on your consent, we will make this clear to you and ensure we seek your consent. 

Collecting pupil information 

We collect pupil information via registration forms at the start of the school year or Common Transfer File (CTF) or secure file transfer from previous school 

Pupil data is essential for the schools’ operational use. Whilst the majority of pupil information you provide to us is mandatory, some of it requested on a voluntary basis. In order to comply with the data protection legislation, we will inform you at the point of collection, whether you are required to provide certain pupil information to us or if you have a choice in this.  

Who we share your personal information with 

• Department for Education (DfE) (statutory for school funding and educational attainment policy and monitoring) and other government agencies and local authorities as required (e.g. to resolve funding queries) 

• Kent County Council teams working to improve outcomes for children and young people (please see KCC’s Pupil Information privacy notice for further details) 

• Commissioned providers of local authority services (such as education services) 

• Schools or colleges that you may attend after leaving us 

• Local forums with schools and KCC representatives which support in-year fair access processes and support managed moves between schools 

• Local multi-agency forums which provide SEND advice, support and guidance (such as Local Inclusion Forum Team (LIFT)) 

• Partner organisations signed up to the Kent & Medway Information Sharing Agreement, where necessary, which may include Police, school nurses, doctors and mental health workers and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust 

• Schools in our local collaboration, to enable the moderation of pupil assessment outcomes, to support collaborative working through joint analysis, and ensure children continue to receive appropriate education provision 

• KCC has to share information with external moderators (teachers with recent relevant experience) of end of key stage assessments, to meet statutory requirements from the Standards & Testing Agency (STA)  

• The Education People (TEP) who are commissioned by KCC to provide Education services for KCC including most of the CFIS services 

• Third-party providers of information services (such as student apps) e.g Doodle Maths, Tapestry & T T Rockstars 

• Contracted providers of services (such as school photographers Imago Portrait Studios Ltd and catering providers - Caterlink)  

We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law. 

  We are required to share information about our pupils with KCC and the Department for Education (DfE) under section 3 of The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013. 

. The National Pupil Database (NPD) 

The NPD is owned and managed by the DfE 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 DfE. 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.  

We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013. 

The DfE may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being of children in England by: 

• conducting research or analysis 

• producing statistics 

• providing information, advice or guidance 

The DfE has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data. Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict approval process and based on a detailed assessment of: 

• who is requesting the data 

• the purpose for which it is required 

• the level and sensitivity of data requested: and  

• the arrangements in place to store and handle the data  

To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data. 

Your Rights 

Under UK GDPR you have rights which you can exercise free of charge which allow you to: 

• know what we are doing with your information and why we are doing it 

• ask to see what information we hold about you (Subject Access Request) 

• ask us to correct any mistakes in the information we hold about you 

• object to direct marketing 

• make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office 

• withdraw consent (if applicable) 

Depending on our reason for using your information you may also be entitled to: 

• ask us to delete information we hold about you 

• have your information transferred electronically to yourself or to another organisation 

• object to decisions being made that significantly affect you 

• object to how we are using your information 

• stop us using your information in certain ways 

We will always seek to comply with your request however we may be required to hold or use your information to comply with legal duties. Please note: your request may delay or prevent us delivering a service to you. 

For further information about your rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under UK GDPR. 

If you would like to exercise a right, please contactAdam Halsey or Stacy Williams of Invicta Law LTD at dpo@invicta.law 

Where we are processing your personal data with your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you change your mind, or you are unhappy with our use of your personal data, please let us know by contacting Carol Makowska School DPO, at cmakowska@minster-ramsgate.kent.sch.uk or Helen Ling HLing@monkton.kent.sch.uk  

Keeping your personal information secure 

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so. 

Who to Contact and Where to go for Further Information 

Please contact Carol Makowska School DPO, at cmakowska@minster-ramsgate.kent.sch.uk or HLing@monkton.kent.sch.uk  to exercise any of your rights, or if you have a complaint about why your information has been collected, how it has been used or how long we have kept it for. 

If you would like to get a copy of the information about you that KCC shares with the DfE or post-16 providers or how they use your information, please contact the Information Resilience and Transparency Team at data.protection@kent.gov.uk. 

For more information about services for children and young people, please go to: http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children or the KCC website at www.kent.gov.uk  

 
UK GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone 03031 231113. 

For further information visit https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/about-the-website/privacy-statement 

For further information about how the Department for Education uses your information: 

To find out more about the pupil information we share with the DfE, for the purpose of data collections, go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools. 

To find out more about the NPD, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-user-guide-and-supporting-information. 

For more information about the DfE’s data sharing process, please visit:  

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data  

For information about which organisations the department has provided pupil information, (and for which project), please visit the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received 

To contact DfE: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe 

Last updated 

We may need to update this privacy notice periodically so we recommend that you revisit this information from time to time. This version was last updated on 5th September 2023.