Newsletter July 2025

what is gdpr? it gives people control over how their data is collected, stored, and used, and affects all schools and academies that handle such data what is the most up to date education act? a very reasonable question by a school that found it collected and used pupil information under section 537a of the education act 1996, surely with the passage of time this has changed, actually no! the most up to date education act in the uk is the education act 2011 this legislation introduced significant changes to various aspects of education, including school discipline, teacher training, qualifications, and student finance it also abolished several educational bodies, such as the general teaching council for england and the qualifications and curriculum development agency the act remains current with all known amendments as of now section 537a of the education act 1996 remains current and is up to date with all known amendments this section allows the secretary of state to require schools to provide information about individual pupils for educational purposes it has been revised over time, but the core provisions are still in place trip data sharing another customer alerted us to this useful guidance on trip data sharing, it was within the context of the firms organising the trip asking for personal data we are always pleased to check this with you recording evidence amongst all the varied skills you are expected to have it appears you must include recording evidence in a manner that supports a case and i fear that clause 77 of kcsie refers