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Taking and displaying pupil photos and information
There are no hard and fast rules under the GDPR specifically on displaying pupil photos or other information, but you must have a 'lawful basis' for using personal data, and seek consent where necessary. Use the advice below to work out how best to manage this in your school.
Contents
- Work out your 'lawful basis' for displaying the data
- Follow the data protection principles
- Consider safeguarding risks as well as data protection
- When you won't need consent to take and display images
- When you will need consent to take and display images
- '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
- Freedom of Information Act: guidance
- 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 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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