Data Protection Act 1998

We Kingsmeadow School are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.  We collect information from you, and may receive information about you from your previous school.  We hold this personal data and use it to:

 

  • support your teaching and learning;
  • monitor and report on your progress;
  • provide appropriate pastoral care, and
  • assess how well your school is doing.

 

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

 

We will not give information about you to anyone outside the school without your consent unless the law and our rules permit it.

We are required by law to pass some of your information to the Local Authority (LA), and the Department for Education (Dfe)

 

You have a general right to be given access to personal data held about you 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. Please contact Mrs A Rodaway at Kingsmeadow School, Market Lane, Dunston, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear NE11 9NX or email External Link mailto:Audrey.Rodaway@Kingsmeadow.org.uk

 

If you require more information about how the LA and/or Dfe store and use this data please go to the following websites:

and
Download this file http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/13856/DCSF%20what%20we%20do%20with%20Children's%20data%20v4%20final.doc

 

If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the LA or the DCSF as follows:

 

  • Matt Waddington

Assistant Performance and Information Manager (Acting)
Learning and Children
Civic Centre
Gateshead Council

Regent Street

Gateshead

Tyne and Wear

NE8 1HH
Tel; 0191 433 2751
Email; mattwaddington@gateshead.gov.uk

 

  • Public Communications Unit
    Department for Children, Schools and Families
    Sanctuary Buildings
    Great Smith Street
    London
    SW1P 3BT

website:          External Link http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/

email:              External Link mailto:info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk 
tel:                   0870 000 2288.

 

Connexions Services - Once you are aged 13 or over we are required to pass on certain information to the Connexions services.  Connexions is the government's information and advice service for all young people aged 13 to 19 in England. 

 

We must provide both your own and your parent/s' name/s and address/es, and any further information relevant to the Connexions services’ role.  

 

However, you (if you are over 16) or your parents can ask that no information beyond name and address be passed to Connexions.  Please inform Mrs J Smith at Kingsmeadow School, Market Lane, Dunston, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear NE11 9NX or email External Link mailto:Janice.Smith@Kingsmeadow.org.uk if you wish to opt-out of this arrangement. For more information about Connexions please, please contact the Local Authority as shown above.