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Privacy notice for School admissions and education services.
We provide support to help children and their parents or careers who live in Waltham Forest find a local school place.
Town Hall Campus, London E17 4NX
We need to collect and share information in order to deliver our services effectively. We take our responsibility to protect your data seriously and we will use it in accordance with the legal requirements, which includes the Data Protection Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The lawful basis for processing personal data gathered within applications for school places is under a Legal Obligation where it is personal data, and under substantial public interest where the processing relates to special category information such as race, ethnicity, and health information.
We will be compliant with the School Admissions Code, which has the force of law. The purpose of the Code is to ensure that all school places for maintained schools (excluding maintained special schools) and Academies are allocated and offered in an open and fair way and in accordance with the published admission arrangements for the school. The Code requires local authorities to coordinate the admission arrangements for entry to Reception, Year 3 in junior schools and Year 7 in secondary schools.
In respect of in-year admissions, the local authority is the admission authority for all community schools. Academies, including free schools, foundation and voluntary aided schools may delegate the coordination of their admissions to the local authority or may handle their own in-year applications as own admission authority (OAA) schools
In order to effectively and efficiently process 11+ registration applications, applications for admissions to schools and school admission appeals the following information is collected:
Agencies we will share the information with:
The information you provide to us on your application, including any supporting papers will be used to:
We retain your information for five years if you are refused a school place and for one year if you are offered your first preference school.
Our Data Protection Officer is Mark Hynes. Email: Data.Protection@walthamforest.gov.uk.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
These are included in the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
If we’re unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)