Please click here to view the Routine Legal Advice Notes for Schools - issued by Legal Services, March 2010.

Guidance covers:

Definition of Parent/Parental Responsibility

Rights of separated or "estranged" parents to receive information, etc

Requests for information from school records

Subject Access Requests under the Data Protection Act 1998

Requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Requests for schools to provide information for private law proceedings

Parental disputes over the collection of children by one parent or another

Change of child's surname

Use of photos/images

Banning

Indications of potential claims against the school/Children's Services