Policy paper

DfE appropriate policy document

Information about the legal basis and safeguards in place for the sensitive processing of special category data and criminal offence data.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 5 September 2022
• Last updated: 15 March 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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The Data Protection Act 2018 requires organisations who process personal data to meet certain legal obligations.

This document outlines where the processing of special categories of personal data, criminal offence data and sensitive personal data is required for:

• performing or exercising obligations or rights, which are imposed or conferred by law on the controller or the data subject in connection with employment, social security or social protection
• reasons of substantial public interest
• archiving, research and statistical purposes
• law enforcement purposes

It also provides information about the safeguards that DfE has put in place in accordance with the data protection principles, including our policy for the retention and erasure of personal data.

Published 5 September 2022
Last updated 15 March 2024 + show all updates

1. 15 March 2024

   Updated section 15 of 'DfE appropriate policy document' to explain how we apply the data protection principles.

2. 5 September 2022

   First published.