Guidance from Department for Education to support schools with data protection activity, including compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Every local-authority-maintained school must publish specific information on its website to comply with The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

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This departmental advice is for:

school leaders

school staff

governing bodies

local authorities

It applies to:

maintained schools

community schools

foundation schools

voluntary schools

community special schools

foundation special schools

academies and free schools

pupil referral units

non-maintained special schools

The advice covers:

powers to search without consent

prohibited items schools can search for

powers to confiscate items found during searches

Read the document here.