Privacy Policy

• Policy Number: SCS2026007
• Document Rescinds/Replaces: SCS2024019
​​​​​​​​​​​​​• Date Released: 9 March 2026
• Review Date: 9 March 2029
• Policy Type: Operational
• Audience: Public
• Approved: Executive Director
• Document Owner: Director: Governance & Legal

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The Privacy Policy sets out how Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) manages personal information provided to or collected by it and its schools.

The purpose of the Policy is to inform:

  • SCS staff about their obligations concerning personal information and the relevant supporting documents to assist them to meet these obligations; and
  • members of the wider school community about how SCS manages their personal information and how they may request access to this information, including making a complaint about how SCS has managed their information.

This policy applies to SCS staff. In this policy, SCS staff means all employees, members of religious orders engaged in schools, volunteers, trainees, interns and labour hire employees.

This policy also applies to contractors, job applicants, parents/carers, students, and other members of the SCS school community.

3.1 Personal information of students and parents/carers

SCS collects and holds personal information, including health and other sensitive information about students and parents/carers before, during and after the period of a student’s enrolment at a school, including:

  • name, contact details (including next of kin), such as a student or parents’/carers’ mobile number and email address, date of birth, gender, language background, previous school and religion
  • parents’/carers’ education, occupation and language background
  • medical information (e.g. details of a disability and/or allergies, absence notes, medical reports and names of health professionals)
  • conduct and complaint records, or other behaviour notes and school reports
  • information about referrals to government welfare …