What do schools do with your documents (proof of address etc)

[AWhisperWillDoIfThatsAllYouCan]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering how schools handle your documents once your child has been enrolled?

I'm in Scotland, and you go in during registration week with all your necessary proof, they take photocopies and then you're registered. When I was registering, I had just moved house the day before (same town) but I still owned my old house and was in the process of changing addresses on all my stuff. I took what I had for the new house, and they refused my mobile phone bill so I had to log into my online banking on their office computer and print out a statement. They wouldn't let me just hand them the first page with the address, they took they whole statement.

This was years ago now and my oldest will be heading to high school soon. I'm just wondering what happens to those documents? Do the school still have them? Anyone know?

These days they are supposed to give them back.

They could still have them, you could ask. But they would not be much use now as not recent enough.

Its not that I want them back to use. I just wanted to know what they do with them as I would hope they'd have been shredded by now.

They would probably have sat in your childs personal file and never looked at again. When your child leaves the school they will be shredded.

Under GDPR rules they can only keep documents for a specific length of time before disposing of them, depends on what type of documents they are. In additions they need to give details on who they will store/use your personal data so I assume this would have been on your letter/local authority website. If you don’t have it you are also able to call and ask them what their data privacy policy is/gat a copy and ask for what’s on record for you. I think you can also ask them to purge certain documents