GDPR and schools

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spurious wrote: »

State exam results, contact addresses, names of guardians etc., all things that might be asked for or useful in the future.
We regularly had men come in up to 25 years after they had left school looking for proof of exam results - and we had them for them, in a secure location.

Do you mean in the school? That is different to keeping your own planner and notes with student personal data, which is what doc_17 is saying he/she will do.

Even so, the school needs to have a data retention policy. State exam results should not be stored at all - that's a matter for the SEC. Apart from some specific records such as disciplinary notes and accident records, most data should be retained for 7 years past the date that the student turned 18.

What is stored should always be held securely, with encryption and access control. None of it should be in a teacher's private possession.

gaiscioch

I just searched our VSware or whatever it's called for the timetable of other teachers as I need to make an exchange for cover with teachers who will be available at a specific time so I need to know who those teachers are. It's that or individually ask every other teacher until I find the answer.

Is that an infringement of the data protection legislation?

evolving_doors

gaiscioch wrote: »

I just searched our VSware or whatever it's called for the timetable of other teachers as I need to make an exchange for cover with teachers who will be available at a specific time so I need to know who those teachers are. It's that or individually ask every other teacher until I find the answer.

Is that an infringement of the data protection legislation?

Did you close the curtains in case anyone might have been peeking in at your screen:pac:

judeboy101

gaiscioch wrote: »

I just searched our VSware or whatever it's called for the timetable of other teachers as I need to make an exchange for cover with teachers who will be available at a specific time so I need to know who those teachers are. It's that or individually ask every other teacher until I find the answer.

Is that an infringement of the data protection legislation?

Technically, unless your using a secure vpn, ur computer is uber clean or the comp belongs to the school, then no.

doc_17

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Is it really crackers or nonsense to expect that records made in a professional capacity are professionally managed? These records could include details about abilities or disabilities of children, possibly references to sensitive family issues, maybe references to fellow teachers.


Or put it another way, would you be happy if your doctor or your physio (or your child's doctor or your child's speech therapist) was making notes about you as a patient and taking the records home, maybe to their house share with other professionals?

Would a medical professional be in the dark as to whether they are allowed to take those records? Or if they should have to pay for the resource that stores them?

doc_17

Joey Yellow Stage wrote: »

Please don't keep your own copies of notes on student - it's not your place to do so. I don't want information about my kids floating around in someone's private possession.

If you aren't willing to take data protection seriously, then don't teach. The rest of the professional world has to adhere to the same standards.

Idiotic post. Truly stupid. If you turn up at my PT Meeting and ask how your child is doing then I’ll say that I have no information as you didn’t appprove of me keeping records