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Haven't appointed one yet. We're holding out until the last possible moment in the hope of forcing the Local Authority to offer the service to its maintained schools.

Many thanks to all for your responses. My understanding is that certain aspects of the pupil record should be retained until the pupil reaches the age of 25 (e.g., SEND records), but - as a Primary School - I would expect these to be passed to the next setting when a pupil leaves, and that setting is then responsible for maintaining the record. As I can't identify any lawful basis for us to retain data around restraint/a parent who's given us lots of issues to deal with (CYOB doesn't seem to be included!), we'd have trouble justifying to the data subject/ICO. I feel as though I know the IRMS toolkit almost off by heart now

Hi @AlanD Thanks for your swift response! I know you wanted to avoid thinking about GDPR (don't we all?!) but if the records are retained, any idea what we could list as the lawful basis for doing so? Thanks again, much appreciated.

Hi all Apologies if this comes over as an extreme bit of nit-picking, just wanted to gain some views prior to a meeting! We're reviewing our Primary School's data retention schedule, which states that the pupil record will be kept for X years after the pupil leaves the school, then destroyed (in the main, this refers to the electronic record in the school's MIS). To my mind, this means the entire pupil record. The Head is keen to retain copies of certain paper records for a longer period, e.g. if a pupil has been restrained, or if there have been ongoing parental issues, in case there's a law suit against the school at some point in the future. I can't see a lawful basis for doing this if the pupil record in its entirety - including the records of those particular issues - have been passed to the next setting, who will presumably retain it until the pupil reaches the age of 25. Any thoughts or opinions welcomed!

Hearing my 23-year-old son belting out 80s tunes at the top of his voice. I've raised him well. (Not entirely sure my husband agrees.) Seeing someone stumble over a paving stone and turn round to stare at it, angrily. Scoffing a box of Maltesers then, when picking up the empty box to chuck it in the recycling bin, hearing the last hidden Malteser roll out of the corner.

Hi all From the outset I want to explain that I'm a School Business Manager, not a technical guru, so please be kind to me! I'm trying to set up email encryption in Office 365, have done all the Azure stuff, set up the 'rule' so that if a subject header or message contain key words they're encrypted, etc, and so far all's gone well. However . . . I've encountered a problem. Obviously some of our emails to individual parents/carers need to be encrypted (e.g., it contains feedback on pupil progress) and in common with much of the population, many of our parents will be reading emails on a mobile device. This is where I've encountered the challenge! When testing it on emails from my work account to my personal account, I found that you can't tap on the link to obtain a passcode, go into subsequent email containing the passcode, then input the passcode into the original email - it just generates a new password, and you're then stuck in an eternal loop that threatens to drive you insane. I THOUGHT the solution was to download Microsoft's Message Encryption View app (for iPhone) . . . but that apparently only works with the native Mail app on the iPhone, not with the Gmail app that I use. We can't really tell parents that they should only use their device's native Mail app, and I can't imagine it going down too well if we say "Yeah, you'll have to log in on a PC or laptop, it works fine there." Does anyone have any suggestions for a solution? Huge thanks for any help you can give - and for all the stuff I've already picked up from these forums!

Great news! I’ve signed up.

Another view of "who can/can't be DPO": https://www.stoneking.co.uk/literature/other-articles/details-data-protection-officer-role-employment-focused-note

Okay, I SWEAR to you that until about 5 minutes ago I couldn't see the "Thank Post" button on any message. How to feel like a fool on your first day in a new school

Hi all I'm SBM in a maintained Primary school and originally registered on the site for the GDPR discussions (ah, what a joy the whole thing is!) Having browsed that area of the forum for a couple of hours this evening, I'm now looking at the Aladdin's cave of delights that reside elsewhere on the site. If only I'd found edugeek earlier . . . To show myself as a complete ignoramus from an early stage . . . how do I register 'thanks' to another poster?