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Privacy information: education providers’ workforce, including teachers

Details of the personal data the Department for Education (DfE) processes for education providers and teachers.

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Department for Education
Published
23 October 2023
Last updated
30 October 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Privacy information: education providers’ workforce, including teachers

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This document details what personal data DfE processes about the education providers’ workforce – including teachers and staff working in schools, academies or colleges, or for training providers, as well as employers of apprentices.

Read the DfE personal information charter for more on the standards you can expect when we collect, hold or use your personal information.

Updates to this page

Published 23 October 2023
Last updated 30 October 2024 + show all updates

  1. We have updated the section ‘Using your data when you use the Apply for Qualified Teacher Status in England service’. We have clarified information on the data DfE collect and use about your referees to support the TRA obtaining work references.

  2. We have added a new section on how we use your data when you access Register trainee teachers. We have replaced the section on how we use your data to administer the risk protection arrangement. We have also made updates to other sections. These include changes to the lists we maintain and data we collect in ‘Using your data for education sector governance’. They also include adding detail on why we use sensitive or special category data.

  3. Added new section ‘Using your data when you use the Apply for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in England service’ to ‘Using your data to support teaching as a career’. Added new section ‘How to whistleblow’ to ‘How to contact us and how to make a complaint’. Updated the data collected for the funding learning section.

  4. Added new sections on teacher misconduct referrals and when you make a complaint about education providers, children’s social care or DfE. Updated the data collected section of the pupil assessments section and the data shared section of the investigate teacher misconduct.

  5. Updated 'Purpose and lawful basis for processing' in section 7.3 to clarify that schools have a statutory obligation to take part in trials if selected.

  6. Updated with details about retention of Deeds, using data for case studies and DfE Sign-In. Updated 'Using your data to make an enquiry or complaint' section with information on data collected.

  7. First published.

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