#ICYMI our thread on a decade of the National Pupil Data giveaway — identifying and sensitive. When we say “identifying and sensitive” people sometimes don’t believe it. See #SEND, Learning Difficulties, Records for unborn children. #DataBill #DPDIBill #MyRecordsMyRights 🧵

“The selling point for their #SafetyTech was that by getting children used to it at school, staff would be teaching them how to accept #surveillance that employers will demand in the future workplace ...normalising this is very explicit in some companies.” computerweekly.com/feature/Are-we…

Lord Frost, Children's Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill 3/7/2025, "we are seeing the erosion of the vital principle that freedom and autonomy are fundamentally important and that the state does not have the right to go anywhere it wants at will". youtube.com/watch?v=kdZbw1… #education

House of Lords forthcoming business for period commencing 10 July is available here lordswhips.org.uk/fb Noting recess and "August 28th. Last day to table amendments for the marshalled list for Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (day 9)". #CWBSBill #SchoolsBill

When your child starts school in England, so does their national pupil record at the Department for Education. This September, ask your school. Who uses our data? Talk about the National Pupil Database. youtu.be/uE7cgzuP34I #MyRecordsMyRights #education #BackToSchool2025

It's time for a break. Wishing everyone in and beyond the state education sector in England, a restful, reinvigorating summer holiday. Back in a month. (By when we expect to know more about what needed fixed in 2020 by DfE managing millions of our #records ⬇️). #DataProtection

Katherine Rundell on BBC Radio 4 Today would wave a magic wand to reverse the loss of school libraries. Only 1 in 7 primaries have one - only 1 in 4 in the most economically deprived areas. She adds they should be staffed by a librarian and assessed via Ofsted. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We’ve a serious suggestion—government Departments should audit admin data stores, delete unnecessary history, retain statistics. And on process costs: DfE’s 23,000 schools census 3x a year, could be massively reduced alone, by sending only field changes, not duplicating records.

Whatever the #Alevels2025 exam results bring today, we believe everyone should be able to understand how their own grade was calculated. We call on Ofqual to work with exam boards and JCQ to give each candidate a written explainer #MyRecordsMyRights defenddigitalme.org/2021/12/04/res…

The best single source of information about #GCSEResults2025 today is on BBC Bitesize including links to grade boundary data bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic… — but why is there no single source incl on standardisation on the results slip itself for each candidate? defenddigitalme.org/2021/12/04/res…

Reminder to schools: don’t post pupils’ photos #GCSEResults2025 on social media today — there’s no need, and its risks should be assessed and documented as part of your #safeguarding duties Ofsted ⚠️ Why? defenddigitalme.org/2024/01/28/cal… ‼️The status quo defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/upl…