Education health and primary care privacy notice
1 Council Contact Details
1.1 North Northants Council
Registered Office:
Sheerness House
41 Meadow Road
Kettering
NN16 8TL
Tel: 0300 126 3000
This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how we collect it, how we use it and how we may share information that we hold about you in order to deliver our services. We are required to give you this information under data protection law. North Northamptonshire Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. The Privacy Notice below explains how we use information about you and how we protect your privacy.
North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) complies with data protection legislation (the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and is registered as a 'Data Controller' (Reg. No. Z7589390).
1.2 Who We Are
The Education, Health and Care Service carries out the local authority duties regarding the support for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities as defined in the Children and Families Act 2014. This requires the team to consider requests for assessment, co-ordinate the multi-agency assessment if one is agreed and write and maintain Education, Health and Care Plans if issued following assessment. An EHC plan identifies a child's special educational needs, and where relevant, brings together education, health and care services to achieve agreed outcomes. An EHC plan will only be written for an eligible child on the completion of a SEND needs assessment. Children, young people and families are at the centre of the assessment and planning process and the focus is very much on what is important for the child or young person – what they want to achieve now and in the future. North Northamptonshire Council is responsible for making sure the plan is well co-ordinated.
2 Information that we hold
2.1 What personal information do we collect to deliver this service?
In the course of delivering these statutory services, we will collect the following personal information (these lists are not exhaustive):
- Personal information such as your name, address, contact details, date of birth, gender, photographs and language.
- Special category information such as ethnicity, religion, disabilities, immigration status, mental health information
- Assigned professional/practitioner details
- Attendance at NNC provided training
- Child in Care status, Care Order details, care history
- Education information/history/exclusion details
- Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
- Funding LEA
- Family composition and contact details of parents/carers
- GP Details
- Home to school transport details
- Pupil Premium details
- Current school/schools applied for
- Short break allocation/number of nights used
We may also collect the following information from schools/education provider:
- Details of payments to schools
- DFE number (setting)
- Ofsted category
- Bank details
- Student numbers on roll
Where lawful to do so under the applicable legislation we will seek information from other sources including:
- Other North Northamptonshire Council Departments
- Your GP in regard to your health
- Assigned professional/practitioner
- School
- Ofsted
3 How the information is obtained
3.1 How do we collect this personal information?
We collect personal information in the following ways:
- Face to face
- Assessment/Report
- Telephone
- Statutory Referrals
3.2 There are a number of reasons why we need to collect and use your personal information.
For what purpose is this personal information collected?
- Assessments
- Service delivery
- Service improvement
- Service Planning/Research
We collect and use your personal information in order to:
- Perform a Statutory Duty
- Perform a Public Duty
- Perform a Regulatory Duty
- To enable service delivery
- To enable official reporting
- Management of funding and grants
- Voluntary basis (for example, parents/carers that wish to home school)
The additional legal bases that govern and direct the delivery of services is as follows:
- Children and Families Act 2014
- Education Act 2002
- SEND Code of Practice 2015
4 What we do with the information
4.1 How we use this personal information?
- To consider if a statutory assessment is required
- To undertake a statutory assessment if required
- To draw up an EHC plan if required
- To maintain the EHC plan for as long as it is required
- To monitor workloads to ensure there is capacity to meet statutory timelines
- To evaluate and quality assure the services we provide and to ensure that they are outcome and child/young person centered
4.2 Who we may share your information with
If required we will share your information with other North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) departments such as:
- Adults, Communities and Wellbeing
- Children’s Trust
- Education and Universal Services
- LGSS Legal
We may also share your information outside of NNC with the following organisations (this list is not exhaustive):
- West Northamptonshire Council
- Commissioned Delivery Partners
- Department for Education
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Independent Education providers
- Judicial agencies
- Local Authorities
- Ofsted
- Police
- Training providers
- Voluntary and third sector providers
- Youth Offending Service
Why do we share this information?
In order for the service to fully carry out its legal duties and to deliver its service it is a necessary requirement to share this information.
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
5 How long we keep your information for and how we securely dispose of it after use
5.1 How long will your personal information be held?
The information will only be used for the purposes stated when it was collected. Information will not be sold, rented or provided to anyone else, or used for any other purpose than that for which it was originally collected unless required to by law.
| Category of Information | Retention Period |
|---|---|
| All records relating to the management of special educational needs assessments | Retain from date of birth of child for 75 years. |
| All records relating to the development and implementation of special needs coordinated support plans | Retain from date of birth of child for 75 years. |
5.2 We will securely dispose of your information in line with retention periods.
6 How we store your information
6.1 How is this information stored?
We hold data securely for the set amount of time detailed in our records Retention Schedule. For more information in regards to this and how we keep your information safe please check our Records retention schedule.
7 Your data protection rights
7.1 The law gives you a number of rights to control what personal information is used by us and how we can use it. Please see section 15 of the council’s Privacy Policy for further information.
7.2 Please be aware that your rights may differ depending on the lawful basis for processing your personal data.
8 Who to contact
8.1 If you would like further information about how we use your personal information, or you wish to exercise one of your data rights or you wish to complain about the use of your personal information please contact the Data Protection Officer:
Tel: 01832 742229
Email to [email protected]
Or you can write to:
Data Protection Officer
North Northants Council
Cedar Drive
Thrapston
NN14 4LZ
8.2 If you are still dissatisfied once you have contacted the Data Protection Officer, you have the right to complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
9 Changes to this privacy notice
9.1 Privacy notices are live documents, which will be updated or revised in line with legislation.
Last updated 29 April 2022