Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
This privacy notice is designed to help you understand how and why we process your personal data in relation to looked after children (LAC) and children in need (CiN). This notice should be read in conjunction with our corporate privacy notice.
North Yorkshire Council are a ‘data controller’ as defined by Article 4(7) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The teams dealing with looked after children and children in need collect and process data in order to facilitate the direct care of children receiving these services.
We have appointed Veritau Ltd to be our data protection officer.
Their contact details are:
Information Governance Office
Veritau
West Offices
Station Rise
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 6GA
Email: infogov@northyorks.gov.uk
Tel: 01904 552848
In order to deliver our looked after children and children in need services we will need to collect both personal and special category data, specifically personal data collected:
Special category data collected:
Why do we collect your personal information?
We need to collect this information for the following purposes:
In the course of performing our duties, we may share your information with a number of agencies who are key to delivering our service.
Within the council, the staff responsible for the direct care of the child agencies share information with:
We only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide services to you and in line with our record retention and disposal schedule. The following table details the retention period for records relating to this service:
Data held | Retention period |
---|---|
Records relating to a child in care | 75 years from the date of birth of the child |
With regard to personal data:
With regard to special category data:
The legislations, policies and guidance that relate to this service include but is not limited to:
For more information about how we use your data, including your privacy rights and the complaints process, please see our corporate privacy notice.