PN155 - School Attendance Fixed Penalty Notices

Torfaen County Borough Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. This Privacy Notice is designed to give you information about the data we hold about you, how we use it, your rights in relation to it and the safeguards in place to protect it.

TCBC Service Area: Children & Families - Education
Work area: Education Welfare Service
Contact Details: Sarah Allard
Privacy Notice Name: School Attendance Fixed Penalty Notices

Data Controller: Torfaen County Borough Council, c/o Civic Centre, Pontypool, NP4 6YB

If you wish to raise a concern about the handling of your personal data, please contact the Data Protection Officer on 01495 762200 or email dpa@torfaen.gov.uk

This Privacy Notice is designed to give you information about the data we hold about you, how we use it, your rights in relation to it and the safeguards in place to protect it when we receive, process and issue Fixed penalty Notices.

Who provides your data to the Council?

The personal information we process is provided to us indirectly by schools

AND

We may receive personal information directly from parents/guardians.

How does the Council collect this information?

  • Information management systems
  • Information shared directly by schools via telephone, email and letter.
  • Information direct from parents which is gathered via the telephone, email and letter.
  • Capita Fixed Penalty Notice Portal

What information does the Council collect about you?

The Education Welfare Service collects:

  • Name
  • Address
  • DoB
  • Name and contact details of parents/guardians
  • Details about who has day-to-day care of the child/ young person
  • Current school base
  • School attendance data
  • Additional Learning Needs
  • Looked After Child status
  • Medical information from the consultant, GP and or/ school nurse.
  • Meeting notes
  • Telephone conversation notes
  • Any other relevant information schools may provide

Why does the Council process your personal data?

Under Article 6 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(c) We have a legal obligation.

(e) We need it to perform a public task.

  • The Education (Penalty Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Special categories of personal data:

We collect the following special category data:

  • data concerning health

We collect this under Article 9 of the UK GDPR.

Who has access to your data?

Your data is shared internally only with the appropriate staff where it is necessary for the performance of their roles.

Your data may also be shared internally with other departments and externally with organisations for the issuing of Fixed penalty Notices.  These may include, but not be limited to:

  • Education providers, Social Care, Families First, legal services, our internal administration team and Gov.UK Notify.

Apart from where previously stated, we do not pass your details to third parties unless we are lawfully required do so.

Is the Data transferred out of the UK?

No

How does the Council keep your data secure?

The Council has internal policies in place to ensure the data it processes is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed. Access to this data is restricted in accordance with the Council’s internal policies and in compliance with the UK GDPR.

Data will be stored securely in:

  • A secure network.

Where the Council engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions. These third parties are also under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate measures to ensure the security of data.

How long does the Council keep your data?

The Council will hold your personal data only for the period that is necessary and will follow organisational and Local Authority standards in this area. At the end of the retention period the Council will securely destroy or dispose of the data in line with retention schedules.

  • Date of birth +25 years

Are we making automated decisions/profiling with your data?

No

Your rights

You have a number of Rights you can exercise:

  • Access - to obtain a copy of your data on request
  • Rectification – to require the Council to change incorrect or incomplete data
  • Object, Restrict or Delete - under certain circumstances you can require the Council to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
  • Data portability – to receive and/or transmit data provided to the Council to other organisations (this applies in limited circumstances)
  • Withdraw your consent at any time (where consent has been given)
  • To know the consequences of failing to provide data to the Council
  • To know the existence of any Automated Decision-making, including profiling, and the consequences of this for you.
  • To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Information Commissioners Office)

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact: Sarah Allard, Torfaen County Borough Council, Civic Centre, Pontypool. NP4 6YB. Sarah.Allard@Torfaen.gov.uk

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (Wales), 2nd Floor, Churchill House, Churchill Way, Cardiff, CF10 2HH. Telephone 0330 414 6421 or e-mail  Wales@ico.org.uk.

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