
Your Privacy Matters
Privacy Notice – Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
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Wiltshire County Council are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect information and may receive information about your child from your Early Years Setting. We hold this personal data and use it to:
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Support your child’s teaching and learning;
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Monitor and report on their progress;
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Provide appropriate pastoral care;
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Deliver our statutory duties, including financial & sufficiency planning;
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Carry out statistical analysis; and
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Assess how well your Early Years Setting is doing.
This information includes your child’s contact/address details, date of birth, attendance for funding allocations, Foundation Stage Profile results and personal characteristics such as your child’s gender, ethnicity, first language and special educational needs.
We will not give information about you to anyone outside the County Council without your consent unless the law and our rules allow us to. We are required by law to pass some of your information to the Department for Education (DfE).
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If you require more information about how the Local Authority (LA) and/or DfE store and use your information, then please look at the following websites:
Wiltshire County Council:
​Data protection - Wiltshire Council
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The Department for Education:
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The Information Commissioners Office:
Accessing pupils' information | ICO
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If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE as follows:
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Data Protection
Information Governance Team
Legal and Governance
Wiltshire Council
County Hall
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8JN
Email: InformationGovernance@wiltshire.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 456 0100
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Freedom of Information
Information Governance Team
Legal and Governance
Wiltshire Council
County Hall
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8JN
Email: InformationGovernance@wiltshire.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 456 0100
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​Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
United Kingdom
Website: Department for Education - GOV.UK
Email: Contact the Department for Education - Contact type - GOV.UK
Telephone: 0370 000 2288
