On the 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force in the UK.  These are new data protection regulations build upon the Data Protection Act of 1998.

The GDPR require public authorities and businesses to identify the lawful basis for storing personal data, audit information we already hold and take a ‘data protection by design and default’ approach to personal data.   To learn more about the General Data Protection Regulation, please visit the Information Commissioner's Office website on http://ico.org.uk

At Rivers ESC, we take data protection very seriously and in line with GDPR requirements, we have a Data Protection Officer who monitors our practice of Data Protection, on behalf of Rivers ESC.

In order to ensure that we comply with the new regulations we have privacy notices and policies in place.

 If you have a concern about the way the school has handled your personal data, please contact Heather Dunne (heather.dunne@riversesc.herts.sch.uk). The school will consider data protection complaints in line with its Data Protection Complaints and Information Rights Procedure, which is available on request.