What should independent schools do with UPNs?
When a learner joins an independent school from a maintained school the learner’s UPN may be provided. Independent schools may wish to keep a record of the UPN, but are not otherwise required to do anything with it. Likewise when a learner leaves an independent school and joins a maintained school, the maintained school may ask for a UPN. If independent schools do not have a UPN for the learner, it is sufficient for them to say that, as an independent school, they are not required to hold UPNs for learners, and so do not have one.