School policies cover every aspect of school life!  Below are some of our most important policies for your information. Please feel free to ask the relevant member of staff any questions about these policies.

Every school is required to set out its own local offer related to pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), explaining what our school can offer SEND pupils. This can be found on this page. There is also a link to Solihull Council's Local Offer for pupils with SEND requirements.

WHAT WE NEED AND WHY WE NEED IT

We collect, use and store personal information about our pupils and their parents/carers; this information helps us to:

• support our pupils’ teaching and learning;

• follow and report on our pupils’ progress;

• provide the right care and support for our pupils;

• understand how well our school is doing as a whole; and

• fulfil our duties under relevant legislation and regulations.

We may occasionally ask you for consent to use your information; however, we will make this clear where consent is our lawful basis

The information we collect, use and store includes names and contact details, pupil place and date of birth, assessment marks and results, attendance records, any exclusion information, Special Educational Needs information (if relevant),  disability information (if relevant), gender, photographs, ethnic group, religion and any relevant medical information.

For a more comprehensive list of the information held by schools, please see the Department for Education (DfE)

Common Basic Data Set, here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/common-basic-data-set-cbds-database

INFORMATION WE RECEIVE

If you provide us with contact details of others, for example, in case of emergency or when you may not be available please ensure they are aware their information has been passed to the school.

We will also receive the above types of personal information, where relevant, from the previous school and may also receive information from the Local Authority (LA) and the DfE.

WHO WE SHARE IT WITH

Effective and relevant information sharing between parents, schools, LAs and the DfE is necessary to ensuring that all children are safe and receiving suitable education.

1. Local Authority and Department for Education

We are required, by law, to pass certain information about our pupils to the LA, and the DfE. Where relevant this may include reporting safeguarding concerns to Social Services at the LA or to request education support services.

The DfE may also share pupil level personal data that we supply to them, with third parties. This will only take place where legislation allows it to do so and it is in compliance with the Data Protection law. Decisions on whether the DfE releases this personal data to third parties are subject to a robust approval process and are 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. For more information on how this sharing process works, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-pupil-database-apply-for-a-data-extract

For information on which third party organisations (and for which project) the DfE have provided pupil level data to, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received

2. Attendance and Welfare Support

We have contracted Central School and Attendance Welfare Service to provide Attendance and Welfare Support services. If we have any attendance concerns we will pass child name, date of birth, family information and attendance patterns to this team.

3. NHS

We sometimes need to share personal information with NHS teams, such as the School Nurse team who promote health and emotional wellbeing in schools and provide services such as health assessments and immunisation programmes.

4. Schools

We will also pass information about Pupils to their next school in order that the Educational record is maintained for a Pupil’s entire school life.

HOW LONG WE KEEP IT

The information we collect, use and store about pupils and their parents/carers is retained either until it is updated/superseded or until the pupil leaves. If we are the pupil’s last known school we will retain the information until the pupil is at least 25 years old; this ties in with the Limitation Act 1980.

YOUR RIGHTS

Data Protection law allows an individual to ask the school for copies of the information we hold about them or their children. If you would like more information about this please contact Elaine Robertson on office@fordbridge.solihull.sch.uk. If at any point you believe the information we hold is inaccurate or you have concerns about our use of it please let us know.

CONTACT

For more information on the content of this Notice, how Fordbridge School complies with Data Protection law, or if you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled personal information please contact Elaine Robertson on office@fordbridge.solihull.sch.uk, who will respond or investigate the matter.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with Data Protection law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

For more information about how the LA stores and uses the information we pass to them, please contact Education Information Management Services

Tel: 0121 704 8313

Email: eims@solihull.gov.uk

For more information about how the DfE stores and uses information about pupils, you can visit the following website or contact them at the details below:

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data

Tel: 0370 000 2288

Contact form: https://www.gov.uk/contact-df

Parent Consultation - 

Thank you so much for your feedback, 230 responses were submitted, we are pleased to say that:

99% said that they were happy with the contents of the RSE policy

99% said that they felt they had no reason to withdraw from the non-statutory lessons

2.6% said that they would like a break down of the RSE lessons for each year group

Equality 

Fordbridge Community Primary School is proud to be a fully inclusive school where everyone is welcome and encouraged to be the best they can be. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity for all our pupils, parents and staff. We make sure that we consider equality and the possible implications for all pupils and especially those with protected characteristics.

We expect all members of our community and everyone who enters our school to behave in a way which respects the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.

Fordbridge  School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout the school community. To achieve this, our equality objectives (2022-2025) are as follows:

Objective 1: To ensure that the school promotes role models that young people positively identify with, who reflect and broaden the school’s diversity in terms of race, gender and other protected characteristics.

Objective 2: To raise equality awareness with pupils and staff, ensuring tolerance and respect towards individuals who identify with any of the protected characteristics.

Objective 3:To train all members of staff and govenors that are involved in recruitment and selection,  on equal opportunities and non-discrimination

Complaints Procedure

From time to time, children, parents and others connected with the academy, will become aware of matters which will cause them concern. To ensure that all of these matters are resolved in an effective manner the Trust has adopted a complaints procedure.

The procedure was devised with the intention that it will:

• Usually be possible to resolve a matter in an informal manner.
• Be non-adversarial and provide confidentiality for all parties.
• Allow any forthcoming matters to be dealt with in a swift manner.

How to make raise a concern or make a complaint

In the first instance, we would ask that parents and carers make an appointment with their child's class teacher to attempt to resolve the problem in an informal discussion. If after meeting with your child's teacher you feel that the issue remains unresolved, we ask that you make an appointment to meet with one of our Phase Leaders or a member of the Senior Leadership Team. If your complaint is a SEND complaint please firstly discuss with Mrs N Reilly as Inclusion lead, who will speak to the school SENDco. 

If you feel that the complaint is of a formal nature, we ask that you make an appointment with the Headteacher to discuss your concerns. Once a complaint has been received, we aim to resolve the matter promptly and ensure that a suitable outcome is reached.