Decision

Can anyone spot an exemption for immediate threat to life? I can spot several on the exemptions page related to health, but these are about data requests. See "Education data – serious harm" https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/exemptions/

@rich_tech Understood. This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back!

As the Headteacher has agreed with the DSL I'm not sure it would make a great deal of difference. My experience of these political situations is that another member of SLT could as easily be overridden.

Our cleaners are very much contract based and not normally in areas with students. The problem is though that any adult visitor can end up in the staff room for tea etc. My feeling is that displaying it is just unnecessary. We have weekly staff briefings where vulnerable students can be highlighted. Another example was given of it being necessary for covers teachers, but (1) what's the guarantee that a cover teacher will go to the staff room or even know to look at this particular display and (2) it would be far more effective if the cover supervisor ensured that all cover teachers were briefed about vulnerable students as part of their handover.

Our school has a tradition of putting up pictures of vulnerable students in the staff room, along with some description of what their issue is. I'm sure we're not the only school. As DPO I've said that we should not do this. Also, there are other better mechanisms of informing staff about vulnerable students that don't require essentially publicly posting information about these students - the staff room is used by cleaners, people carrying out maintenance at the school, a local church volunteer group, and potentially all manner of other adult visitors. I have been told by the DSL that "safeguarding trumps data protection", hence these pictures and text must stay. This has been backed up by the Headteacher. I think it's a gross oversimplification to say that safeguarding trumps data protection, because the two don't need to compete in this situation. Staff can be as informed, if not better informed, by other mechanisms. Thoughts?

Yes, this is purely just for school owned PCs. Does it cover them for Windows and Office? @Boredguy are you disagreeing?