Early years settings carry the same legal duties as a secondary school with a fraction of the administrative capacity — and they hold some of the most sensitive data about the youngest children. We make that manageable rather than frightening.
Tapestry, Famly and similar tools capture hundreds of images and observations a week. Who can see them, what happens when a child leaves, and whether parents can share what they download are questions most settings have never been asked — until someone asks.
Photo consent, trip consent, medical consent, consent to share with health visitors. Collected at registration, rarely revisited, and often unclear what happens when one parent agrees and the other does not.
A practitioner photographs a child's learning on their own phone because the setting's tablet is flat. Everyone knows it happens. Very few settings have a workable policy that staff can actually follow on a busy morning.
In a setting of eight staff there is no compliance department. The manager is on the floor with the children. Data protection has to be something that fits into that reality or it does not happen at all.
Every school is different. A ten-minute call is usually enough to tell you where you stand.
Built for pre school, not adapted to it.
The same DPO service everywhere would miss what makes your setting different. This is the version that fits.
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