1) Does your local authority routinely request parents/guardians of electively home educated children to supply photographic images of the following as part of your routine contact /duties with electively home-educating families in your area;
a) their home educated children engaging in educational activities?
No
b) their home-educated child(ren)s educational work?
No
c) any other images (eg images of bookshelves/certificates/awards etc)?
No
2) If this is not a routine request, but your elective home education team does on occasion request any of the photographic images outlined above, please advise under what circumstances you would request said images from parents.
We do not request images of any kind.
3) If your local authority has ever requested or received photographic images from electively home educating families please advise;
a) Where these images are stored?
Secure P Drive
b) In what format they are stored?
Electronically they are saved in the format we receive them in.
c) What members of staff have access to said images?
EHE Team and associated admin
d) Whether anyone with access to these images, has ever shared any of the said images, supplied from any electively home educating family, to anyone outside of the immediate local authority elective home education team? If so, to whom were images shared and for what purpose?
No
e) How long you store said images for?
On secure P Drive until school leaving age. These are then archived electronically until their 31st birthday. After which the documents will be deleted.
4) If and when you dispose of any photographic images that electively home educating families have supplied to your local authority, please explain your time frame for doing this and your process for doing so.
As above
5) If you hold photographic images of any of your elective home-educated children whether supplied by parents voluntarily, or requested by your department, do you supply guidance for parents on;
a) Where these images are stored?
Privacy Policy on website Babcock LDP – Privacy Policy
b) In what format they are stored?
No guidance whatever the parents sends it in.
c) What members of staff have access to said images?
Privacy Policy on website Babcock LDP – Privacy Policy
d) How long you keep said images for?
Privacy Policy on website Babcock LDP – Privacy Policy
e) How they can go about requesting to have said photographic images permanently deleted?
Privacy Policy on website Babcock LDP – Privacy Policy