Privacy notice: multiplication tables check

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Who we are

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is an executive agency of the Department for Education (DfE), responsible for the development and delivery of assessments for children in education between reception and the end of key stage 2 (KS2).

This privacy notice outlines the personal data we will collect, process and store for the KS2 multiplication tables check (MTC).

For the purpose of data protection legislation, DfE is the data controller.

The personal data we use

Personal data is sourced from the pupil census data provided by schools to DfE.

We also receive pupils’ personal data from schools.

The pupil personal data that will be used are:

  • full name
  • gender
  • date of birth
  • unique pupil number (UPN)

How we use your information

The data collected is used to create the pupil register and confirm pupils participating in the MTC, which enables us to deliver the assessment to all year 4 pupils.

The purpose of the MTC is to determine whether pupils can fluently recall their times tables, which is essential for future success in mathematics. We also provide the results back to schools to help them identify pupils who have not yet mastered their times table and may require more support.

Who we will share your data with

The collected and processed data is used at an aggregate level, for operational purposes and to inform a statistical publication at national and local authority level.

Individual pupil results will be available for schools to view in Analyse School Performance.

How long we will keep your personal data

We will only keep the personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose(s) of this piece of work (up to 7 years), after which point it will be securely destroyed. Please note that, under the data protection legislation, and in compliance with the relevant conditions, we can lawfully keep personal data processed purely for research purposes indefinitely.

Your data protection rights

You have the right:

  • to ask us for access to information about you that we hold
  • to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete
  • to request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing
  • to restrict our processing of your personal data (i.e. permitting its storage but no further processing)
  • to object to direct marketing (including profiling) and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
  • not to be subject to decisions based purely on automated processing where it produces a legal or similarly significant effect on you

If you need to contact us regarding any of the above, please do so via the DfE at https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe.

Further information about your data protection rights appears on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website.

The right to lodge a complaint

As an executive agency of the DfE, STA determines the purposes and means of processing personal data as part of the administration of the national curriculum assessments. You can find more information about this in DfE’s Personal information charter.

If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, please contact DfE and quote ‘multiplication tables check personal data’ as a reference.

Alternatively, you have the right to raise any concerns with the Information Commissioner’s Office. For more information, visit the ICO website.

Last updated

We may need to update this privacy notice periodically, so we recommend that you revisit this information from time to time. This version was last updated in March 2022.

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