Data Protection Impact Assessment Screening Checklist

 

To confirm whether a full DPIA is required please go through the below and tick any boxes that are relevant.

 

Ref number:

RF-19578

Name and Job title:

Rachelle White | School Admissions Manager

Date:

11.11.2025

Description - Explain broadly what you aim to achieve and what type of processing it involves. You may find it helpful to refer or link to other documents, such as a project proposal, business case etc.

 

Decision Report: Coordinated Admissions Schemes and Admission Arrangements for 2027-2028 School Year


Subject of Report - Admission Arrangements for 2027-2028 School Admissions

 

This report seeks approval of the admissions policies and published admission numbers for community and voluntary controlled schools – schools for whom the City of York Council is the admission authority – for the school year beginning in September 2027.

 

 

 

Are you:

 

X       starting a new(or reviewing an existing) project involving the use of personal data.

 

 

 

 

Are you planning to carry out any

 

evaluation or scoring

 

automated decision-making with significant effects.

 

systematic monitoring.

 

processing of sensitive data or data of a highly personal nature

 

processing on a large scale

 

processing of data concerning vulnerable data subjects

 

innovative technological or organisational solutions

 

processing that involves preventing data subjects from exercising a right or using a service or contract.

 

profiling to make decisions about people

 

automated decision-making to make decisions about people

 

process special-category data or criminal-offence data

 

systematically monitor a publicly accessible place e.g. CCTV

 

use innovative technology *

 

use profiling to help make decisions on someone’s access to a service, opportunity, or benefit

 

use automated decision-making to help make decisions on someone’s access to a service, opportunity, or benefit

 

use special category data to help make decisions on someone’s access to a service, opportunity, or benefit

 

carry out profiling on a large scale

 

process biometric or genetic data *

 

combine, compare, or match data from multiple sources

 

process personal data without providing a privacy notice directly to the individual*

 

process personal data in a way that involves tracking individuals’ online or offline location or behaviour *

 

process children’s personal data for profiling or automated decision-making or for marketing purposes, or offer online services directly to them

 

process personal data that could result in a risk of harm in the event of a breach

 

a change to the nature, scope, context, or purposes of existing processing

 

 

 

If you have ticked any of the boxes above, you must complete a full DPIA. Please contact information.governance@york.gov.uk who will be able to advise and support you to do this

 

If you have not ticked any of the boxes above, you are not required to complete a full DPIA. However, we must record all decision making regarding DPIA, so please send your completed screening questionnaire to information.governance@york.gov.uk

 

*for information governance only – when advising or going through these points as part of the screening or full DPIA, note that these are “in combination with any of the criteria in the European guidelines” http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=611236