Children and families privacy notice

The reasons we use your data

  • assess the quality of our services
  • comply with the law regarding data sharing
  • equality monitoring
  • evaluate and improve our policies on children’s social care
  • financial transactions
  • identification of families eligible for inclusion in Troubled Families Programme
  • identify children as part of the CP-IS programme
  • monitor and report on pupil progress
  • prevention and detection of crime
  • provide appropriate pastoral care
  • regulatory, licensing and enforcement functions
  • research including consultations
  • service delivery
  • service improvement and planning
  • statutory requirements. For example: reporting to Government
  • support pupil learning
  • support these children and monitor their progress
  • tracking of families included on Troubled Families Programme
  • traded services
  • troubled Families Programme payment by results claim
  • troubled Families Programme spot checks

Why we are allowed to use your data

Legal obligation or public task under various UK laws including but not limited to:

  • Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009
  • contract (traded services)
  • Local Safeguarding Children and Adults Boards Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/90)
  • Mental Health Act 1983, 2007
  • Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities in England to Identify Children Not Receiving Education – February 2007)
  • The Care Act 2014
  • The Childcare Act 2006
  • The Children & Families Act 2014
  • The Children Act 1989, 2004
  • The Children and Social Work Act 2017
  • The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
  • The Education & Adoption Act 2016
  • The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013
  • The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006
  • The Education Act 1944, 1996, 2002
  • The Education and Inspections Act 2006
  • The Education and Skills Act 2008
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • The Health and Social Care Act 2012
  • The Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015
  • The Localism Act 2011
  • The Mental Capacity Act 2005

Who we can share your data with

  • Adults social care
  • Children’s social care
  • contractors providing education and IT services
  • Department for Education and their agencies
  • early help services
  • education providers including early years providers, pre and post 16
  • elected members
  • funding bodies
  • Government agencies. For example DWP
  • GP surgeries
  • health agencies
  • Judicial Agencies. For example Courts
  • other Local Authorities
  • other youth offending teams
  • Police
  • Probation
  • pupil referral units
  • safeguarding boards
  • school transport operators
  • specialist teachers
  • speech and language therapists
  • substance misuse teams
  • voluntary sector partners
  • youth offending service

When computers make any decisions about you

  • under CP-IS, the data of looked after children or a child that has a child protection plan will automatically sent as an alert to NHS Digital

When your data gets sent to other countries

  • for liaison with courts or children’s services abroad

Changes to this privacy notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 4 September 2019.

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