None

Financial penalty

Reprimand, no fine

22 July 2024

Date on the register

UK GDPR

Law relied on

UK GDPR Article 35(1), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)

Education and childcare

Sector

3 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Chelmer Valley High School with a reprimand on 22 July 2024 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Chelmer Valley High School
Action: Reprimand
Date published: 22 July 2024
Register year: 2024
Law relied on: UK GDPR
Provisions cited: UK GDPR Article 35(1), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: Education and childcare
ICO register reference: 17360
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 3 of 216 actions (1%)
Actions published that year: 52
Actions under this law: 95
Position on the register: 143rd of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone

02What happened, and where it sits

Chelmer Valley High School received an ICO reprimand on 22 July 2024. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 35(1) and UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b). A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

No sum is attached to this action. Reprimands are corrective, not financial, which is why Chelmer Valley High School appears on the register without a figure beside it.

Chelmer Valley High School is filed under Education and childcare, which accounts for 3 of the 216 actions on the register (1%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 18 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 143rd of 216 actions on the register and the 3rd of 3 in Education and childcare. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 139 KB in total: "Chelmer Valley High School reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Chelmer Valley High School have been issued a reprimand in respect of Article 35(1). The school failed to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) prior to introducing facial recognition technology for the purposes of cashless catering.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

UK GDPR

The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.

All 95 register actions under UK GDPR

What a reprimand does

A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

Published notice

PDFChelmer Valley High School reprimand(139 KB)

04Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Finham Park Multi Academy Trust	7 Dec 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Education and childcare
The Labour Party	20 Aug 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Political
Levales Solicitors LLP	21 Jun 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Legal
Southend-on-Sea City Council	14 Oct 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
Clyde Valley Housing Association	9 Apr 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Land or property services

All Education and childcare actions/All 2024 actions/The full register

05Work out an exposure of your own

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.

The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2024/07/chelmer-valley-high-school/.