UK: Stolen laptop contains pupils' data

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.leighjournal.co.uk/news/4255670.Stolen_laptop_contains_pupils__data/

A COMPUTER containing information about thousands of school children has 
been stolen from education headquarters.

Burglars targeted Progress House, the main offices of Wigan Council's 
Children and Young People's Services, and took several laptop computers.

Among them was one which contained information from one of the authority's 
main school improvement databases.

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"The information includes names, dates of birth, postcodes, ethnicity and, 
where applicable, details of any special educational needs or eligibility 
for free school meals.

"There is also data on achievement in national curriculum assessments, 
which is the main purpose of the database."

It is believed that the database contains information on up to 33,000 
children and young people.

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