Making a request
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have 28 days to respond to you.
To make a request, email school.admissions@bracknell-forest.gov.uk.
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
- personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name, address and contact details)
- school applications (paper or online)
- any other relevant documentation specific to the processing of your application
- reasons for the application
- a child or young person’s looked after status (but not the specific details)
- a child or young person’s special educational needs status (but not the details of the need)
- a child or young person’s Unique Pupil Number
- expressions of parental preferences
- relevant application information (sibling details, faith criteria, where provided by the applicant)
- a child or young person’s permanent exclusions (and any relevant alternative provision placements put in place)
- safeguarding information about a child or young person (such as alerts, court orders, and professional involvement)
- additional admissions related information that you have provided directly to your preferred or offered school (such as attendance at a particular place of worship, details of your child’s aptitudes and information about attendance)
How we get the personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- to meet our statutory duty to offer every child that needs one, a school place
- local fraud initiatives
- for the provision of social services
We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
- other local authorities share your personal information with us where requests are made for schools within Bracknell Forest
How the law allows us to use your personal information
We have a legal obligation under:
- School Standards and Framework Act 1998
- Schools Admissions Code 2021
- School Admissions Appeals Code 2022
- Education Act 1996
- Infant Class Size Regulations 2012
- School Admission Regulations 2012
Lawful basis for processing
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis for processing is Article 6 UK GDPR:
- (c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject
- (e) a task carried out in the public interest
Special category data
Special category data is processed under Article 9 UK GDPR:
- (e) processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject
- (g) reasons of substantial public interest
You can read the guide to lawful basis for processing special category data on the Information Commissioner's Office website.
Who we share your information with
We may share your information with:
- schools and other local authorities
- parents, guardians, carers or representatives
- appeal panels
- healthcare, social and welfare organisations
- educators and examining bodies
- service providers and schools
- central government
- professional advisors and consultants
- courts and tribunals
- professional bodies
- survey and research organisations
- police forces
- housing associations
- regulatory bodies
- partner agencies, approved organisations and individuals working with the police
Service adjustments
If you need service adjustments, email school.admissions@bracknell-forest.gov.uk.