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Freedom of Information Act: guidance
Learn about your obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, including the information your school must publish. You can also find out when you can charge for information and when you can refuse requests for information.
Contents
- Main obligations under the Act
- Information schools must publish
- Include your publication scheme on your website if possible
- Handling requests for information
- Refusing to comply with a request
- 'Cheat sheet' for data protection officers
- Child protection files: transfer
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection impact assessments: template and checklist
- Data protection: latest updates
- Data protection officer: who can it be?
- Data sharing agreements
- DPO's report to governors: template
- DPOs: what your school must do for you
- Email security: sending personal data
- GDPR compliance for visiting staff
- GDPR: contacting parents
- GDPR: ensuring your suppliers are compliant
- GDPR for schools' commercial activities
- GDPR jargon buster
- GDPR: managing your photo archives
- GDPR: most common questions 6 months on
- GDPR mythbuster
- GDPR: seeking consent for processing personal data
- GDPR: sending out direct marketing
- GDPR: sharing medical information
- GDPR: sharing safeguarding information
- GDPR: template record of processing activities
- GDPR: using apps and online services with pupils
- Help your staff understand the GDPR: posters and handout
- How to choose which ‘lawful basis’ to use under the GDPR
- How to clean out your data: decision flowchart
- How to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation
- How to respond to subject access requests in the summer holidays
- Information audit: template
- International data transfers under the GDPR
- MATs: getting GDPR-compliant across your trust
- Parents' right to see their child's educational record
- Paying the data protection fee
- Personal data breach procedure and poster
- Poll results: how is the DPO role taking shape?
- Poll results: who are schools choosing as their data protection officer?
- Processing data: at what age can pupils give consent?
- Pupil records: transferring to other schools or providers
- Recording and managing consent under the GDPR
- Recording phone conversations: informing callers
- Requests for information: guidance and template record
- Requests from parents to see pupils' information: FAQs
- Schools' reporting requirements
- Sending personal data by post: managing risk
- Sending personal data home with pupils
- Sharing data in schools
- 'Special category' data under the GDPR
- Subject access requests: guidance and template forms
- Taking and displaying pupil photos and information
- Taking documents home: securing personal data
- The General Data Protection Regulation explained
- QuickRead: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- The role of the data protection officer (DPO)
- To-do list for data protection officers (DPOs)
- Using personal devices: securing personal data
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