South Gloucestershire integrated services for children, young people and their families (Integrated Children’s Services) are co-delivered by staff from the Local Authority, schools and other agencies as part of our Children’s Trust arrangements. Integrated Children’s Services hold personal data about children and young people for whom they provide services, to enable specific functions to be carried out for which they are responsible, such as the assessment of any special educational needs the child may have.
Individuals, as data subjects, have certain rights under the Data Protection Act, including a general right to be given access to personal data held about them by any data controller.
Data controllers have to provide “data subjects” with details of who they (the data controllers) are, the purposes for which they process the personal data, and any other information that is necessary to make the processing of the personal data fair, including any third parties to whom the data may be passed on. This is normally done by what is referred to as a “privacy notice”.
Further information about fair processing requirements, and guidance on the Data Protection Act generally, can be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s website (http://www.ico.gov.uk).