Hill Park School

Any information relating to an identified, or identifiable, individual. This may include the individual’s:

·        Name (including initials)

·        Identification number 

·        Location data 

·        Online identifier, such as a username

·        It may also include factors specific to the individual’s physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or  social identity.

Personal data which is more sensitive and so needs more protection, inclding information about an individual's:

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Political opinions
• Religious or philosophical beliefs 
• Trade Union membership
• Genetics
• Biometrics (such as fingerprints, retina, and iris patterns), where used for identification purposes 
• Health - phyical or mental
• Sex life- sexual orientation 

Any operation carried out on personal data, such as collecting, recording, organising, structuring, storing, adapting, altering, retrieving, using, disseminating, erasing or destroying. Processing can be automated or manual. 

An incident in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data is accidentally or unlawfully destroyed, lost, altered, accessed or disclosed.

·        Student education data

·        Student medical data

·        Parent and carers data

·        Staff employment data

·        Safeguarding data

·        Special needs including EHCP’s

·        Contracts with suppliers

·        Schools Meals data

·        CCTV

·        Volunteers data

·        Visitor information

·        Governors information and details

We use data:

·        to support pupil learning;

·        to monitor and report on pupil progress including EHCP annual reviews;

·        to provide appropriate pastoral care;

·        to assess the quality of our services;

·        to comply with the law regarding data sharing;

·        to process medical data;

·        some photographs and videos are used only after gaining explicit consent, where appropriate.

We share infomation with:

·         schools that the pupil’s attend after leaving us;

·         our local authorities, including Brighton and Hove City Council, East Sussex City Council and West Sussex City Council;

·         the Department for Education (DfE);

·         suppliers that we have contracted with to provide educational services and those related to the operations of the school.

We do not share information about our pupils with anyone without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.We share pupils’ data with the DfE on a statutory basis. This data sharing underpins school funding and educational attainment policy and monitoring. We are required to share information about our pupils with our local authority and the DfE.

Under data protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information that we hold about you. To make a request for your personal information, contact the School Office on admin@hillpark.brighton-hove.sch.uk. 

You also have the right to:

·         object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress;

·         prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing;

·         object to decisions being taken by automated means;

·         in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed and;

·         claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.