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UK GDPR: using apps and online services with pupils
If you're using educational apps or other online services with pupils, such as assessment platforms or homework portals, make sure you stay compliant with data protection law. Work through these questions before setting up a new app or service to figure out your responsibilities, then check your next steps.
- 'Cheat sheet' for data protection officers
- Child protection records: transfer guidance
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection impact assessments: template and checklist
- DPO's report to governors: template
- Email security: sending personal data
- Freedom of information: responding to requests
- GDPR: at what age can pupils give consent?
- GDPR compliance for visiting staff
- GDPR jargon buster
- GDPR mythbuster
- GDPR: personal data breach procedure
- GDPR: seeking consent for processing personal data
- GDPR: sharing safeguarding information
- Help your staff understand the GDPR: posters and handout
- How to respond to subject access requests in the summer holidays
- International data transfers under the UK GDPR
- Parents' right to access 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
- Role of the data protection officer (DPO) Updated
- Schools' reporting requirements
- 'Special category' data under the UK GDPR Updated
- Subject access requests: guidance and template forms
- Taking and displaying pupil photos and information
- Taking documents home: securing personal data
- QuickRead: The UK GDPR
- The UK GDPR: summary
- UK GDPR audit
- UK GDPR: choose your ‘lawful basis’ for processing personal data Updated
- UK GDPR: ensuring your suppliers are compliant Updated
- UK GDPR: template record of processing activities
- Using personal devices: securing personal data
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