Use of information and data security
Data protection
In addition to processing your application for a school place, under the data protection legislation we may use your application information for the following purposes:
to co-operate with our partners in health and youth justice to improve the well being of children in the Newcastle area as required by the Children Act 2004. Information sharing between partner organisations is done when it is necessary to help the services provided by those partner organisations
to provide statistical data to other organisations for the purpose of statistical analysis, statistical surveys or research purposes only. Each request will be individually assessed by Newcastle City Council. It will not be possible for any individual to be identified from this data
we are required to publish statistical data about the number of applications for places at each school, the number which were successful and the criteria under which they were accepted.
Data security
All admissions application data is stored, maintained and transferred by secure methods in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
The Newcastle online school admission system is regularly independently tested to guard against unauthorised entry.
Applicants who choose to use the paper form will have their details entered by local authority officers into our admissions database.
We will not share personal data for admissions applications with anyone except other admitting authorities that require the data in order to process applications for schools within their own authority.