The General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May, 2018 replacing the data protection act.

At Fernwood Primary and Nursery School, all the information we share and all the external bodies we work with is beholden to GDPR.

For more information, visit the Information Commissioner's Office.

If you have any concerns please contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) - Mrs Kerry Frizelle using the email:  DPO@fernwoodprimary.co.uk

Fernwood Primary and Nursery School is ICO registered.

Guidance below taken from the Information Sharing document:

Where you have concerns about a child’s safety and have decided to share information to protect them from a risk of harm, whenever it is safe and practical to do so, you should engage with the child, their parent(s)or carer(s) and explain who you intend to share information with, what information you will be sharing and why. This is unless seeking to discuss a potential concern would put the child or others at risk of harm.

If you have a professional or legal duty to share certain information, and the child or carer therefore does not have a choice about information sharing, they should still be informed about what information sharing has taken place and how the information will be used, wherever possible and safe to do so. However, you should not inform the child or their parent or carer about your decision to share information if doing so could put a child or others at further risk of harm, or could compromise effective safeguarding arrangements, including police investigations.

In any situation where children or their parent(s) or carer(s) object to particular information sharing, but you decide that nonetheless it is appropriate to share, you must record your reasons and the legal basis for doing so.

In situations where there is not a concern for the child’s safety, the position is slightly different. For example, this might be the case in a situation when you consider a family would benefit from additional support to promote the welfare of their child. In such 13 situations you will usually need to gain consent from the child, their parent or carer to share confidential information.

See the LINK for information on Class Dojo and their privacy notices.