BRIDLEWOOD Primary School has been left red-faced for the second time in four months after mistakenly sending a confidential letter discussing the redundancy of a member of staff to parents.

The blunder was sent via an attachment in an email on Friday morning detailing information about the redundancy of an admin staff member - including their name, home address and telephone number as well as their salary and redundancy package pay.

One parent said he was outraged by the mistake which he thinks is a breach of data protection and worries it could put children at risk if it happens again.

“I feel sorry for the person who has been made redundant first off,” he said.

“It doesn’t just say they have been made redundant but it gives their home address and telephone number.

“It is beyond a joke.

"They have sent out the information of the member of staff who is already upset and distressed at the thought of losing their job but then to have that shared must be awful.

“The whole idea of data protection there seems to be non-existent.”

The email was originally sent with a subject line of ‘Blood Donation Session’ and in the correction email sent minutes after the mix-up, parents were asked to delete any copies they have.

It is not the first time that Bridlewood has been embarrassed by a blunder with its emailing system after the school accidentally sent a list of children entitled to free Christmas lunches to every parent in December.

It gave details of pupils who had requested a Christmas lunch and highlighted which children receive free school meals. It also named those whose parents have yet to pay for the lunches. At the time, the school said it was a human error to blame.

Both emails were sent out via the school’s ParentPay system which is used for sending messages on school meals, trips, and uniforms.

Bridlewood acting headteacher Nicola McLaughlin was approached for comment but no one from the school was able to provide one.

The parent added: “Last time we got told it was a human error but surely from that you would have a process there to stop it happening again?

“It just seems there are endless possibilities for embarrassment.

“Things like this put children at risk.

“They need to put a robust process in place to prevent anything like this happening ever again.

“The amount of times emails are sent with the wrong attachments is quite a common occurrence but there has only been two major incidents where the material should never have been accessed to attach to the email.”