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Freedom of information: responding to requests
Know what to do if you receive a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, including when you charge for a response and when you can refuse the request. Use our template letters to help you respond to requests.
- 'Cheat sheet' for data protection officers
- Child protection records: transfer guidance
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection impact assessments: template and checklist
- 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
- Fingerprint scanning: seeking consent
- GDPR: at what age can pupils give consent?
- GDPR audit
- GDPR compliance for visiting staff
- GDPR: contacting parents
- GDPR: ensuring your suppliers are compliant
- GDPR jargon buster
- GDPR: managing your photo archives
- GDPR: most common questions one year on
- GDPR mythbuster
- GDPR: personal data breach procedure
- GDPR: seeking consent for processing personal data
- 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 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
- Poll results: how is the DPO role taking shape?
- Poll results: who are schools choosing as their data protection officer?
- Pupil records: transferring to other schools or providers
- Recording and managing consent under the GDPR
- Requests for information: guidance and template record
- Requests from parents to see pupils' information: FAQs
- Schools' reporting requirements
- Sending personal data home with pupils
- '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)
- Using personal devices: securing personal data
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