Blackpool Local Authority (LA) is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. We collect information about children for whom we provide services and may receive information about them from their school, other authorities and the organisations listed below. This Privacy Notice summarises the information held about children in Blackpool, why it is held and the third parties that it can be passed on to.
The LA use information about children to enable specific functions to be carried out for which we are responsible, such as the assessment of any special educational needs the child may have. We also use the information to derive statistics to inform decisions on, for example, the funding of schools and to assess the performance of schools and set targets for them. The statistics are used in such a way that individual children cannot be identified from them.
For pupils of 13 years and over, schools are legally required to pass on certain information to providers of youth support services in your area. This is the local authority support service for young people aged 13 to 19 in England. This information includes the name, address and date of birth of the pupil and their parent/carer’s name, and any further information relevant to the support services’ role. Parents, or the pupils themselves if aged 16 or over, can ask the school that no information beyond pupil name, address and date of birth can be passed to the support service.
We share information with the following third parties:
The Department for Education (DfE)
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT Tel: 0370 000 2288
They use information about pupils for research and statistics purposes, to inform, influence and improve education policy and to monitor the performance of the education service as a whole. The DfE will feed back to LAs and schools information about their pupils for a variety of purposes that will include data checking exercises, use in self-evaluation analyses and where information is missing because it was not passed on by a former school.
More information on what the DfE does with pupils' and children's data can be obtained by using this link
Details on where the DfE can pass pupil data on to can be found at www.education.gov.uk.
Blackpool Primary Care Trust (PCT)
Seasider's Way
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY1 6JX Tel: 01253 651 200
They use information about pupils for research and statistical purposes, to monitor the performance of local health services and to evaluate and develop them. Information on the height and weight of individual pupils may be provided to the child and its parents and this will require the PCTs to maintain details of pupils’ names for this purpose for a period designated by the Department of Health following the weighing and measuring process. PCTs may also provide individual schools and LAs with aggregate information on pupils’ height and weight.
Learning Records Service (LRS)
MIAP Service Team
Skills Funding Agency
Cheylesmore House, Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2WT Tel: 0845 602 2589
LRS provides shared services across the education sector, offering a learner register, a personal learning record and a learning provider register. For pupils aged 14 years and over and for pupils registering for post-14 qualifications, the school will pass on certain identification information to the LRS to create and maintain a unique learner number (ULN) and a learner record. The LRS will enable organisations allowed by law and detailed at the above website to access the ULN and contain it in their systems, thereby saving individuals having to supply the same information repeatedly to different organisations.
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