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:
- Contract (traded services)
- Local Safeguarding Children & Adults Boards Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/90)
- Local Safeguarding Children 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 & Social Care Act 2012
- The Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015
- The Localism Act 2011
- 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
- Education providers
- Elected members
- Funding bodies
- Government agencies. For example: DWP
- GP surgeries
- Health agencies
- Judicial Agencies. For example: Courts
- Judicial agencies. For example: Courts
- Other Local Authorities
- Other Local Authorities
- Other youth offending teams
- Police
- Probation
- Pupil referral units
- Safeguarding boards
- Safeguarding boards
- School transport operators
- Specialist teachers
- Speech and language therapists
- Substance misuse teams
- 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