Privacy Notice - Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Children and Young Peoples Services - Youth Justice Service.
This Privacy Notice explains how we use and share information. We will review and update this privacy notice to reflect changes in our services and feedback from service users, as well as to comply with changes in the law.
Dudley Council - Youth Justice Service work with young people and partner agencies to prevent re-offending.
We identify risk factors in young people's lives, which make it more likely they will re-offend and put interventions in place to reduce the risks and prevent re-offending.
This is done with young people who appear before the courts and with young people on pre-court programmes and out of court disposals.
In order to provide you with high quality and safe services, which are relevant to your needs, the Youth Justice Service will collect and hold information about you. This may include:
Basic details such as your name, address, date of birth
Parents/carers, family members - name, address, contact details
Housing records
Education records
Police reports
Information from the Youth Justice Service
Information from other professionals who may be involved with you e.g. CAMHS, substance misuse, speech and language
Information about victims of youth crime
We also collect the following special category data:
Gender
Ethnicity
Religion
Medical information
Information from other professionals who may be involved with you e.g. CAMHS, substance misuse, speech and language
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Face to face
By secure email
By post
By telephone
To enable us to provide services to you it is necessary for us to use your personal information to help assess your needs and identify the most appropriate services available. To do so we will use the following legal basis for sharing your information:
Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
For special category data, which is more sensitive information, we rely on the following:
Health and Social Care - we use it for the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services
Your personal information will be used to enable us to give you the best possible care and support. The data will be held in electronic and paper format and will be used for your care, protection and support.
Your information may also be used to provide assurance to the Council about the quality of services provided.
Children’s Services uses Power BI as a business intelligence analysis tool that can handle hundreds of thousands of lines of raw data and add value by categorising, calculating and visualising information to give insight.
Working with colleagues in Children’s Services, interactive business intelligence dashboards have been developed to provide analysis into things like, number of service users, number of children in need, different types of interventions applied etc.
These insights can be shared with those members of staff who need the analysis to help Children’s Services improve service operations. Access to personal identifiable level data is restricted to those who have a lawful basis to access it.
We will only share relevant information about you with other services when they are involved in your care and support or where there is a legal basis for doing so. There are ranges of professionals who may be involved in providing services to you and where appropriate will be provided with relevant information about you. Agencies we may need to share information with include the following:
Constabulary
National Probation Service
Health Services
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Switch
Education Services
There are other times not linked to your care and support where we may need to share your information lawfully. These include:
Where there is a serious risk of harm to you or to others
Where there are concerns for the welfare of a child
For the Prevention or detection of crime
Where a court order requires us to share information about you
The security of your personal information is important to us. The records we keep about you are secure and are confidential within the Council. The Council have a range of procedures, policies and systems to ensure that access to your records are controlled appropriately.
Anyone who receives information from us is also under a legal duty to only use the information for the purposes agreed and keep the information secure and confidential.
We must keep business records of our involvement with you. The type of service you receive will determine how long we have to keep your personal information.
Currently children’s records cannot be destroyed due to Government independent inquiries into child abuse. Information will not be destroyed until 6 years after the end of the inquiries or in accordance with our normal retention schedule (whichever is later).
Our corporate retention guidelines show how long we keep information for different services. Your records will be retained in accordance with Dudley Council records retention schedule as follows:
Parent Case Records
On completion of parenting order or programme completion
Prevention Case Records Following completion of the prevention programme:
Reduce non YJT information to basic information holding
2 months dispose of all.
Except where the Young Person is Looked After or subject to Child Protection:
Looked after Children - 75 years from date of birth or if dies before age 18 for 15 years following the date of death.
Subject to Child Protection - 75 years from date of birth (If child dies before 18th birthday, date of death + 6 years
Offender Case Records; Pre Court Decisions and Sentences of Courts
Standard retention period is 25 years from birth with the following exceptions:
Looked after Children - 75 years from date of birth or if dies before age 18 for 15 years following the date of death.
Subject to Child Protection - 75 years from date of birth (If child dies before 18th birthday, date of death + 6 years
Victim Case Records
On programme completion
We do not process your personal data outside of the EEC
At no time will your information be used or passed to others for marketing or sales purposes, or for any commercial use without your express consent.
What are your information rights?
Your Information Rights are set out in the law. Subject to some legal exceptions, you have the right to:
Have any inaccuracies corrected
Have your personal data erased
Place a restriction on our processing of your data
Object to processing
To request your data to be ported (data portability).
If you wish to exercise your information rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at information.governance@dudley.gov.uk or alternatively write to:
Corporate Information Governance Team Dudley MBC Priory Road Dudley DY1 1HF
You also have the right to request a copy of the personal information the council hold about you. To do this, you can apply on line or download an application form from the DCC website or you can contact the data protection team, to learn more about these rights please see the ICO website.
Further Information
Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) provides help and guidance to make sure we apply the best standards to protecting your personal information. If something goes wrong with your personal information, or you have questions about how we process your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at information.governance@dudley.gov.uk or by calling 0300 555 2345 and asking to speak to the Data Protection Officer. If we have not been able to deal with your complaint, you can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office: Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF
