Protocol Acceptance and Messages


Insight Protocol

Please read the Insight Protocol below. All Insight users are required to confirm that they will conform to the protocol.

Schools and education authorities have made their data available to others in a spirit of co-operation and trust. Access is provided to assist colleagues in the delivery of their professional duties. Of particular note, users of Insight agree not to seek to identify individuals from the information provided, for which they have no direct professional responsibility. All data in the tool (including downloaded tables) should be treated as carefully as other confidential pupil data.

Access to Insight is restricted by password, and you should maintain the security of your password at all times.

Data in the tool are provided to all education authorities and schools on the understanding that they will be used for self-evaluation, professional reflection and benchmarking purposes only and that they will NOT be used publicly, directly or indirectly, to draw comparisons. Insight data should also not be used publicly unless appropriate disclosure control has been implemented to prevent the identification of individuals.

Information in Insight is held by the Scottish Government, and any person making a request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for this information should be referred to the Scottish Government, unless it is the school's or local authority's own data. Should any information be requested under the Act, the Scottish Government will use best endeavours prior to releasing it to consult the organisations or individuals who may have contributed to that information.

The Crown retains copyright of Insight and other publications. As with all Crown Copyright material, users must acknowledge its source and must not use such information to mislead or to advertise a particular product or service.


Glow users should note the following important privacy information. RM Unify will send the following personally identifiable information to this app while it's installed to one or more roles in your establishment:

  • A user identifier that matches those sent to other applications
  • Organisation id
  • Organisation DfE/SEED/DENI number (or equivalent)
  • Organisation name
  • User display name
  • User first name
  • User last name
  • User name
  • User role
  • Is user an RM Unify admin?

Insight Messages

Please read our important advice on interpreting data in light of Covid19.