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 the virtual school processes your personal data. 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 virtual school is a statutory service which consists of all the children in care of North Yorkshire, whether they are placed in a North Yorkshire school or elsewhere in the country. The virtual school is a specialist support team responsible for raising the attainment, progress and aspirations of North Yorkshire's looked after children and previously looked after children. In order to provide this service, the virtual school needs to collect and process your personal data.
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 virtual school, we will need to collect both personal and special category data, specifically:
Personal data collected:
Special category data collected:
We need to collect this information to fulfil our legal obligation with regard to children on roll of the virtual school, specifically for the following purposes:
Purpose of processing your data:
In the course of performing our legal duties, we may share your information with a number of agencies who are key to delivering our service.
Within the council:
Agencies we share information with:
Data held |
Retention period |
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Looked after children case files |
Date of birth + 75 years If the child/young person dies before the age of 18, retain for 15 years from date of death |
With regard to personal data:
Article 6(1)(c) - Legal obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with the law
With regard to special category data:
Article 9(2)(h) – Health and social care
The legislations, policies and guidance that relates to this service includes, 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.