Data Protection

We, Liberty Primary School are a 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 and the Learning Records Service. 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 information1 and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, any special educational needs and relevant medical information.

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

We are required by law to pass some information about you to the Local Authority and the Department for Education (DfE)

If you want to see a copy of the information about you that we hold and/or share, please contact the school office. If you require more information about how the Local Authority (LA) and/or DfE store and use your information, then please go to the following websites:

Merton Council

GOV.UK

If you are unable to access these websites we can send you a copy of this information. Please contact the LA or DfE as follows:

London Borough of Merton Data Protection Officer at data.protection@merton.gov.uk, or by writing to:

The Data Protection Officer
London Borough of Merton
Civic Centre
London Road
Morden, SM4 5DX.
Telephone: 020 8545 4182
Fax: 020 8545 7126

Public Communications Unit
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT

Website: www.education.gov.uk

E-mail: www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus

Telephone: 0370 000 2288

1 Attendance information is not collected as part of the Censuses for the Department for Education for the following pupils / children - those aged under 4 years in Maintained schools and those in Alternative Provision and Early Years Settings. This footnote can be removed where Local Authorities collect such attendance information for their own specific purposes.