Fair Processing Notice - School Census 2009

Harrow High School processes personal data about its learners and is a “data controller” in respect of this for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. It processes this data to:

• support its learners’ teaching and learning;
• monitor and report on their progress;
• provide appropriate pastoral care, and
• assess how well the school as a whole is doing.

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

This data may only be used or passed on for specific purposes allowed by law. From time to time the school is required to pass on some of this data to local authorities, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), and to agencies that are prescribed by law, such as the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), Ofsted, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), the Department of Health (DH), Primary Care Trusts (PCT), (and organisations that require access to data in the Learner Registration System as part of the MIAP (Managing Information Across Partners) programme and Connexions (see below). All these are data controllers in respect of the data they receive, and are subject to the same legal constraints in how they deal with the data.

The governing body of a maintained school in England is also required by law to supply basic information to ContactPoint. This only includes the name and address of the child, contact details for their parents or carers (with parental responsibility) and the contact details of the school.

Learners, as data subjects, have certain rights under the Data Protection Act, including a general right to be given access to personal data held about them by any data controller. The presumption is that by the age of 12 a child has sufficient maturity to understand their rights and to make an access request themselves if they wish. A parent would normally be expected to make a request on a child’s behalf if the child is younger.

If you wish to access your personal data, or that of your child, then please contact the relevant organisation in writing. Details of these organisations can be obtained as a hard copy from the School please call 020 8861 7300.

For learners of 13 years and over, the school is legally required to pass on certain information to Connexions services providers on request. Connexions is the government's support service for all young people aged 13 to 19 in England. This information includes the name and address of the learner and parent, and any further information relevant to the Connexions services’ role. However parents, or the learners themselves if aged 16 or over, can ask that no information beyond name and address (for learner and parent) be passed on to Connexions. If as a parent, or as a learner aged 16 or over, you wish to opt-out and do not want Connexions to receive from the school information beyond name and address, then please contact the school on 020 8861 7300 ext 236.

Your attention is drawn to (Layer 2) of this Fair Processing Notice, which gives supplementary information about the processing of learner data by the organisations mentioned above, and to the Full Notice (Layer 3) which gives greater details of how the learner data is processed and the rights of parents and learners (available on request).

Fair Processing Notice (Layer 2)

Fair Processing Notice (Layer 3)