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Privacy information: children, young people and care leavers

Details of the personal data the Department for Education (DfE) processes for under 18s who are not in mainstream education, and care leavers up to age 25.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
3 October 2023
Last updated:
7 September 2026
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  1. Updated ‘Privacy information: children and young people who are aged under 18 and not in mainstream education and care leavers up to 25’ to add links to The Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD).

  2. Added 'Using your data to ensure the protection of public funds by preventing and detecting fraud'. Updated sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 17 to link to relevant sections in the Members of the public privacy notice.

  3. Updated the mailing address for the Data Protection Officer. Added a new section, 'Using your data to fund and prevent fraud in childcare'.

  4. Added new section, 'Using your data to improve the well-being of children in England' and updated the 'How long we keep your data’ sections with links to the DfE retention schedule.

  5. Added 'Section 13 - using your data when you make a referral of serious teacher misconduct to the TRA' to ' Privacy information: children and young people who are aged under 18 and not in mainstream education, and care leavers aged up to 25'. Also updated the formatting to make the document easier to read.

  6. Updated the information in 'Using your data when you make a complaint about education providers, children’s social care or DfE'.

  7. Updated sections on who collects your information and what we use it for in 'Privacy information: children and young people's version'.

  8. Added new sections: 'Using your data to get your views' and 'Using your data to gather evidence for policy development, evaluation and delivery'. Also updated the 'Data we collect' section of 'Data when you use our websites'.

  9. Updated the section 'Using your data when we share your personal information' with detail on when we share special category data.

  10. Added new section on using your data when you make a complaint about education providers, children’s social care or the DfE. Updated data collected and lawful basis in the children looked after by local authorities section and updated the notification details in the serious incident notification (SIN) section.

  11. Updated sections for 'Using your data so we can protect you', 'Contacting us to make an enquiry or complaint' and 'Using your data so we can undertake long-term research and publish official statistics'. Added new sections titled 'Using your data when you are a child that is looked after by local authorities', 'Using your data when you are a child in need', 'Using your data when we receive a serious incident notification' and 'Using your data when you use our social media channels'. Deleted a section titled 'Using your data to improve the well-being of children in England'.

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The personal data that DfE processes for children and young people who are aged under 18 and not in mainstream education, and care leavers up to age 25.

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