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As trusts start to look at encouraging schools to join them, the bank of resources and support are part of this. If they start turning up elsewhere (a neighbouring trust) then this could get problematic. It only takes one school to kick off and it sets the tone for everyone as a result. This was one reason why the National Digital Resource Bank was being put together ... and why HWB exists too. Good, free to share resources are needed. Independents who create resources to freely share and another bank to earn money is one thing, but a class teacher getting extra money for something they have already been paid for is another matter. The ones that do it well set time aside outside of school and run it as a second business. A good example is some of the phonics work done by Mr Thorne.

Depending on what you are using, apply retention policies on your mail server. Anything tagged as ‘safeguarding’ has that policy.

The EdTech Strategy is pretty high level at the moment and it is pretty split in the community about whether it is any good or not. You have those who worked on previous strategies or used those strategies to have their schools in the good place that they are now (or were until they couldn't afford things anymore) ... and you have those that see this as a step forward, but with more work to do. You may have already guessed it ... but I am on the fence. I do think it is a good start, but I would like to see it mapped against stuff that had been done before ... a) so that we can look at what lessons were learnt from previous projects /programmes of work, b) so we can using existing good advice / practice and c) so we can better plan for the the changes in tech / educational understanding since those projects / programmes were last run. The Online Harms paper is interesting ... it has identified areas that need work on and it seems that, after a few years of not very much, there will be another push again on education. There will be groups looking at what is needed and some familiar faces will, no doubt, feed into those. I don't have any details of who will be involved but I would be surprised if both Kent and UKSIC are not represented in there. I do think there is scope for EG/ANME to work on something together to get involved but that involves members being active about the things it needs to address ... Remember, there is no standard for filtering within education. There is some guidance and I would recommend reviewing the guidance from Wales (https://learning.gov.wales/docs/learningwales/publications/150629-recommended-web-filtering-standards-en.pdf) and from UKSIC (https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/teachers-and-school-staff/appropriate-filtering-and-monitoring) but there is no standard. The work to look at this with BSI was not funded in the end and the sector couldn't see any commercial advantage to self-fund evenly (there is no point only one filter provider funding it ... it needs to be an equal split). There is still a fair bit of work being done in silos ... it is getting better but people need to go and hunt for good practice rather than having it easily laid out to them. I would keep an eye out on Prof. Sonia Livingstone's work to pull things together ... there will be some school related aspects in there. Also continue to keep an eye on UKSIC too. I'll be blogging a bit more about these areas over the next few weeks, hopefully, including the consultation on the draft Age Appropriate Design CCode of Practice.

Schools can take a dim view of selling other people's stuff though ... TES resources is plagued with resources poached from others being sold. I have known schools take staff to task for selling materials created by their colleagues. In fact one school had to deal with a science teacher selling everything from Maths to PE resources!

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If the pictures are published on your website, then that is the purpose and you have a lwaful basis behind it. If the photos are then scraped by FB, then they are using that for a different purpose and different lawful basis which is a clear breach of DPA18/GDPR. However, FB are not scraping ... what usually happens is that a parent takes the pic and links to it or downloads from the website and uploads to FB / Social media. They have done this for 'personal use' and so are not in breach of GDPR ... however they may be in breach of copyright instead ... and generally not thinking about if they shouldbe doing it anyway. If you have a gallery, think about whether you want it to be scraped or not, and measures you may take to prevent this as much as you can.

The OP was looking at sharing resources. I think we can safely say that PD and SCPD *should not be in there* anyway so DPIA is not needed. However, a statement / confirmation that this method of sharing resources *has* to sure that no PD/SCPD is involved.

It does include a lot of soundbites, and some of it is high level ... but a lot of the aims look to build on (or rather pick up again) some of the previous successes ... but on a more ... erm ... stringent ... budget than the amount previously thrown at EdTech. I have some concerns around reinventing the wheel ... the lack of engagement with the professional IT Support sector ... management of tech still ending up being centrally dictated rather than based on real needs of educators and based on the experience of staff delivering day in, day out. LendEd is a good proposition though and I think it is worth getting involved. There are various suppliers in here who are BESA members or who have links with organisations such as the Education Endowment Foundation. If you have strong views and can be constructive about particular aspects of the strategy then raise them in here.

Hippy Bathday Mr B!!!

Definitely looking forward to catching up with everyone.

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Adequacy agreement for Canada - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32002D0002 IP address and browser/system have both got stated purposes. The consent bit is the one I stick on ... it is a curriculum delivery tool so it is based on whatever the school decides. I would drop them a line and ask them to explain that.

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Oh yes ... and there are a few gems. Watch ‘Recorders’ ....

Enjoying the new Peppa Pig episodes.

I think I’ve already covered that the schools toolkit is having an update out in May, but the retention schedule annex still covers the same core information on legislative / statutory reasons to retain data and the length. The area many schools get confused over is operational practices ... and some of that boils down to assessing and deciding what the school needs. The DfE Data Protection covered a chunk of that too. After the core retention requirements have been covered you are left with deciding what you need as a school to operate. To be honest, this is nothing that new either.

Also make any links to share time restricted. As long as personal data is not involved then you only have to consider copyright and ownership of resources and content.