We’ve nearly got the final drafts of our GDPR policy and privacy notices ready to go (we will share them with you for download next week) and I think we will be compliant! Nevertheless, as we have gone through the process it has quite helpfully sparked other ideas, that won’t necessarily make us any more compliant but will help make our organisation and processing of data a little better. Here’s a couple we will be pursuing over the next year …
Governors’ emails – I’m sure this is something many of you do already and we are behind the times but in the future we are thinking of issuing a school governor email address upon appointment which is then easy for us to manage and remove when they have finished their term of office.
Overhaul of our website – our website isn’t too bad (but please be the judge of that yourself and have a look! http://www.chasebridge.richmond.sch.uk/ ) however, it has grown organically over the years and needs a serious tidy up to make sure that key information is more obviously and easily accessible – including our privacy notice when we finally post it. We are also investigating logins for parents so that they will be able to see much of the information that we hold on families and their children, for example, attendance, assessments, contact details so that they can edit where appropriate.
And now our grand philosophical thought for the day … it’s become clear to us that the whole GDPR thing isn’t so much about the goal of getting to 25th May and being compliant or not compliant, it will be an on-going process where we continue to refine and improve our systems and organisation – pretty much like everything else really!