Updated guidance for schools and local authorities for issuing privacy notices
This guidance is for schools and local authorities, when they work with children, young people and parents.
It explains:
- what a privacy notice is
- when you should issue a privacy notice
- what information we expect a privacy notice to include
- why issuing privacy notices is important
Privacy notices are the most common way to provide accessible information to individuals about the use of personal data.
Providing this information is an important part of:
Every school must make its privacy notices freely available to those whose personal data it handles, under this legislation.
The Department for Education (DfE) substantially revised this document as part of a data protection review in 2024. There is also a link to it in the privacy notices section of the data protection in schools policies and procedures guide.