Supplementary Information
The Department for Education – please see separate information sheet for what the Department of Education does with your data.
The Department of Health (DH) uses aggregate information (at school year group level) about pupils’ height and weight for research and statistical purposes, to inform, influence and improve health policy and to monitor the performance of the health service as a whole. The DH will base performance management discussions with Strategic Health Authorities. The Department of Health will also provide aggregate PCT level data to the Healthcare Commission for performance assessment of the health service. www.dh.gov.uk
Ofsted uses information about the progress and performance of pupils to help inspectors evaluate the work of schools, to assist schools in their self-evaluation, and as part of their assessment of the effectiveness of education initiatives and policy. Ofsted also uses information about the views of children and young people, to inform children’s services inspections in local authority areas. Inspection reports do not identify individual pupils. DfE will also provide Ofsted with pupil data for use in school inspection. Where relevant, pupil information may also be shared with post16 learning institutions to minimise the administrative burden on application for a course and to aid the preparation of learning plans. www.ofsted.gov.uk
The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) uses information about pupils to administer the national curriculum assessments portfolio throughout Key Stages 1 to2. This includes both assessments required by statute and those that are optional. The results of these are passed on to DfE to compile statistics on trends and patterns in levels of achievement. The QCDA uses the information to evaluate the effectiveness of the national curriculum and the associated assessment arrangements, and to ensure that these are continually improved. http://www.qcda.org.uk/
Primary Care Trusts (PCT) use information about pupils for research and statistical purposes, to monitor the performance of local health services and to evaluate and develop them. The statistics are used in such a way that individual pupils cannot be identified from them. Information on the height and weight of individual pupils may however be provided to the child and its parents and this will require the PCTs to maintain details of pupils’ names for this purpose for a period designated by the Department of Health following the weighing and measuring process. PCTs may also provide individual schools and LAs with aggregate information on pupils’ height and weight.
http://www.norfolk-pct.nhs.uk/ Data Protection Officer, Lakeside 400, Old Chapel Way, Broadland Business Park, Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, NR7 0WG
http://www.gywpct.nhs.uk/ Data Protection Officer, Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT, 1 Common Lane North, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9BN
The Learning Records Service MIAP is now called the Learning Records Service. This new name is being phased into all materials during summer 2010.
The learning Records Service is designed to support learners at all levels to access, manage and use their own achievement information – such as qualifications, awards or training received as they progress through education, training and lifelong learning.
The Learning Records Service, part of Information Management (IM) Services, provides shared services across the education sector. The Learning Records Service is built on the principle of collect once, use many times and used by all that are entitled to do so. It supports the whole of the education sector. www.miap.gov.uk/
