Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy

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Privacy Notice – Briary Pre-School

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This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how we collect, how we use and may share information about you. We are required to give you this information under data protection law.

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1. Who We Are

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Briary Preschool collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. Briary Pre-School is a childcare setting providing early years education and care.

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we use your data, please contact:

Briary Pre-School
briarypreschool@btconnect.com
01227 742050

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2. What Information We Collect

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In the course of providing education and care we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us:

• Personal information (such as name, date of birth, gender, home address and postcode)

• Special category characteristics (such as special educational needs (SEN) information, ethnicity, relevant medical information)

• Parents/Carers Information (such as name, date of birth, National Insurance or National Asylum Support Service Number)

• Financial eligibility information (such as 30 hours codes)

• Attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences and absence reasons)

• Photographs and videos 

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We may also collect information about care home residents involved in intergenerational activities where appropriate consent has been obtained.

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We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:

 

• Health visitor

• Children Centre

• Briary Primary School

• Kent Safeguarding Board

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3. How we use your personal information

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We use your personal information to:

• check and calculate free entitlement

• provide appropriate pastoral care and support services to children

• provide funding

• provide advice, support and guidance to the setting

• enable financial and policy compliance checks of the setting

• assess and improve the quality of our services

• comply with the law regarding data sharing

• safeguard children

• Safeguard children

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Photographs and Video Recordings (Parental Consent)

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At our preschool, we may take photographs and video recordings of children during activities, learning experiences, and special events.

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We will only take and use images of your child with your explicit consent. These images may be used for the following purposes:

• Documenting your child’s development and learning journey

• Displaying within the preschool (e.g.  displays)

• Sharing with parents/carers (e.g. newsletters or secure apps)

• Promotional materials such as our website, social media, or printed publications (only where specifically agreed)

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We will always handle images securely and ensure they are used appropriately and respectfully.

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We will not share images of your child publicly (e.g. on social media or our website) without your specific, separate consent for this purpose.

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You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you wish to do so, or request that an image or video be removed, please contact us.

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4. How long your personal data will be kept

 

We will hold financial information securely and retain it for 7 years, after which the information is archived or securely destroyed.

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We will hold your personal information securely and retain it from the child /young person’s date of birth until they reach the age of 25, after which the information is archived or securely destroyed.

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5. Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

 

We collect and use personal information to comply with our legal obligations under section 537A of the Education Act 1996, section 83 of the Children Act 1989, and to carry out tasks in the public interest. If we need to collect special category (sensitive) personal information, we rely upon reasons of substantial public interest (equality of opportunity or treatment)

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6. Who we share your personal information with

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• Department for Education (DfE) (statutory for early years funding and policy monitoring)

• Kent County Council Management Information & Finance (to provide funding)

• Other local authorities, or other early years settings, to resolve duplicate claims and funding queries

• Kent County Council teams working to improve outcomes for children and young people

• The Education People (TEP) who are commissioned by KCC to provide Education services for KCC including most of the CFIS services

• Commissioned providers of local authority services (such as education services)

• Local multi-agency forums which provide SEND advice, support and guidance (such as EY Local Inclusion Forum Team (EY LIFT))

• Schools that you attend after leaving us

• Partner organisations signed up to the Kent & Medway Information Sharing Agreement, where necessary, which may include Police, school nurses, doctors and mental health workers and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

• Contracted providers of services (such as external photographers and catering providers) where consent has been given

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We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

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The National Pupil Database (NPD)

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We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.

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The NPD is owned and managed by the DfE and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the DfE. It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and awarding bodies.

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The DfE may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being of children in England by:

• conducting research or analysis

• producing statistics

• providing information, advice or guidance

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The DfE has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data.

 

Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict approval process and based on a detailed assessment of:

• who is requesting the data

• the purpose for which it is required

• the level and sensitivity of data requested: and

• the arrangements in place to store and handle the data

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To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data.

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Your Rights

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Under UK GDPR you have rights which you can exercise free of charge which allow you to:

• know what we are doing with your information and why we are doing it

• ask to see what information we hold about you (Subject Access Request)

• ask us to correct any mistakes in the information we hold about you

• object to direct marketing

• make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office

• withdraw consent (if applicable)

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Depending on our reason for using your information you may also be entitled to:

• ask us to delete information we hold about you

• have your information transferred electronically to yourself or to another organisation

• object to decisions being made that significantly affect you

• object to how we are using your information

• stop us using your information in certain ways

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We will always seek to comply with your request however we may be required to hold or use your information to comply with legal duties.

 

Please note: your request may delay or prevent us delivering a service to you.

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For further information about your rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under UK GDPR.

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If you would like to exercise a right, please contact Carol Smith, Manager of Briary Pre-School 01227 742050.

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Who to Contact and Where to go for Further Information

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Please contact Carol Smith, Pre-School Manager to exercise any of your rights, or if you have a complaint about why your information has been collected, how it has been used or how long we have kept it for.

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Cookies Policy – Briary Pre-School

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Our website uses cookies to help it work properly and to improve your experience.

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Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website.

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We use cookies to:

• Ensure the website functions correctly

• Understand how the website is used so we can improve it

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Some cookies may be set by third-party services (such as website analytics).

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When you visit our website, you can choose whether to accept non-essential cookies. You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

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For any questions, please contact:

Briary Pre-School
briarypreschool@btconnect.com
01227 742050

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