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'Special category' data under the UK GDPR
The UK GDPR classifies some data as 'special category', meaning it's sensitive and needs more protection. Read on to find out what kind of data is defined this way in schools, and the conditions you can use to justify processing it.
- '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)
- Schools' reporting requirements
- 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
- UK GDPR: template record of processing activities
- UK GDPR: using apps and online services with pupils Updated
- Using personal devices: securing personal data
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