DfE refuses to release 2020 audit of national pupil records under FOI — Defend Digital Me What’s new: The Department for Education has refused to release its full 2020 ICO Audit—over five years later—claiming it would be prejudicial today, “to the conduct of public affairs” and specificall...

Department for Education refuses to release 2020 audit of national pupil records, under FOI.

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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill' on Thursday 3 July 2025.

Read the Lord Frost comments in context, in the Hansard record of the full House of Lords debate on July 3, 2025 (part 1)

Children’s Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill Committee Stage #CWBSBill hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0... 2/2

Policy — Defend Digital Me Policy Our Consultation Responses can be found here on a rolling basis.   The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and supporting documentation (1) Proposed amendments, Committee Stage 2025. [downloa...

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We are keeping the vast array of Bill documents here, because not everything published is on the Bill page. Our own mapping and written contributions are being updated and added on a rolling basis defenddigitalme.org/policy/policy/

Impact Assessment and scrutiny not fit for purpose: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill so far — Defend Digital Me Today, MP Neil O’Brien,”put on record,” that the Minister will be, “well aware of some of the concerns about the clause that are coming to us from civil society.” “I am sure that she will have seen th...

The Children’s Wellbeing and #Schools Bill so far: Impact Assessment & scrutiny not fit for purpose defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/07/i... #Data

Pushing everything 'too difficult' into #CWBSBill secondary regs gets them passed without scrutiny but makes Bill high-risk schoolsweek.co.uk/campaigners-...

A card to accompany the blogpost: School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of ID and research https://defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/school-pupils-sex-survey-data-offered-to-researchers-opt-out-fails-children-on-reuse-of-id-and-research/ Where the headline text is on the right of the card below the Defend Digital Me logo and superimposed on a transparent background image of a government building, Scottish flag, question marks and shadow of a child, all below 'the hand of the state' and zeros and ones in white on pink.

School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of #ID and Local Authorities’ survey

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#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Campaigners warn of schools bill’s 'huge new powers’ So-called 'Henry VIII powers' will grant education secretary to amend or repeat other legislation

The #CWBSbill obliges LAs maintain a database of Home Educated children *and to hand it over to the DfE* (436F)

Worrying the govt. is building ever more matched datasets of parents’ income, welfare and children’s data too. Parliament has never debated these powers. schoolsweek.co.uk/campaigners-...

A reflection on 2024 for pupil data in England and beyond — Defend Digital Me As we reflect on 2024, Defend Digital Me has remained steadfast in advocating for learners’ rights to privacy and family life within educational settings. Our mission to ensure safe, fair, and transpa...

A reflection on 2024 for #pupil data in the #education sector in England and beyond, and the first week of a new term, 2025.

#Data #DataProtection #HumanRights #ChildRights #EdTech #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #NHS #CWBSBill Children's Wellbeing & #Schools Bill defenddigitalme.org/2024/12/30/a...