Privacy Notices - Adult safeguarding Privacy Notice

This notice explains what personal data (information) Swindon Adult Safeguarding Team hold about you, how we collect, how we use and may share information about you. We are required to give you this information under data protection law.

Local authority statutory adult safeguarding duties apply equally to those adults with care and support needs regardless of whether those needs are being met, regardless of whether the adult lacks mental capacity or not, and regardless of setting.
 

A Privacy Notice is a statement issued by an organisation which explains how personal and confidential data about individuals is collected, used and shared.

Swindon Borough Council will act as a “Data Controller” for any personal data that you provide to us. We will ensure that the data given to us is processed in line with our Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 18) and the EU General Data Protection Regulations. (GDPR)

To find out more about Swindon Borough Council’s data protection policies please contact our Data Protection Officer. dataprotection@swindon.gov.uk or in writing to Data Protection Officer, Civic Offices, Euclid Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 2JH.

Please note that if you do not provide your data, it will limit the effectiveness of the services and support that we are able to offer you.

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

In the course of working with you (or with professionals from other agencies who also work with you), we may collect the following personal information when you or professionals provide it to us:

• Personal information e.g: your name, address, telephone number, date of birth
• Contact details for members of your family and support network
• Information relating specifically to your individual case

Special categories of personal data:

• Information about your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical belief and your sexual orientation
• Information about health conditions or disabilities that may apply to you
• Information about you and your circumstances
• Information about relevant health and safety concerns
• Information about your needs and wishes

In the course of working with you, we may collect information from, or share it, with some of the following third parties (non-exhaustive list):

• Advocates, deputies, legal power of attorney
• Borough Councils, housing associations and landlords
• Cabinet members
• Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Central government
• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
• External providers
• Family members and carers
• Internal teams, such as case management and finance
• Swindon Joint Safeguarding Board
• Legal representatives, such as solicitors
• Local government ombudsman
• MPs
• Nearest Relative'
• NHS providers, such as GPs and hospitals
• Other professionals
• Care home and domiciliary care providers
• Reablement
• Partner agencies, such as volunteer organisations and statutory organisations
• Schools

Swindon Borough Council complies with its obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data:

• up to date, by storing and destroying it securely,
• by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data,
• by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure,
• and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal information to:

• create a secure and comprehensive record of all of the work that we do with and for you
• fully understand your needs
• promote your health and wellbeing in partnership, where applicable, with other agencies, for example the Great Western Hospitals Trust, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership
• endeavour to keep you safe from harm
• undertake Safeguarding Enquiries if there are concerns raised that you may be at risk of abuse or neglect
• arrange short/long term care solutions
• liaise with agencies, companies and charities on your behalf
• process complaints and compliments regarding the services we have provided
• work with you or your representative to create a Safeguarding Plan
• analyse the service that we are providing through statistical reports output by our computer systems

When we collect your personal data, we rely on the following legal bases:

• 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
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

When we collect your ‘special categories of personal data’, (such as health, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation) we rely on the following legal bases:

• Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest (safeguarding of children and of individuals at risk)
• Processing is necessary for the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services

These legal bases are underpinned by acts of legislation that dictate what actions can and should be taken by local authorities, including:

• The Care Act 2014
• Health and Social Care Act 2015
• Children’s Act 1989
• Localism Act 2011
• Data Protection Act 2018
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007)
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Homelessness Reduction Act 2017

As we have a statutory basis for collecting your personal data, we do not need to ask for your permission to collect and share it, however we will only ever share your data on a basis of need, in line with legislation and will work transparently with you at all times.
If you do not provide your data, it will limit the effectiveness of the services and support that we are able to offer you.

NHS and care services

To find out more about the NHS’ wider use of confidential personal information and to register your choice to opt out if you do not want your data to be used in this way, visit the NHS website. If you do choose to opt out you can still consent to your data being used for specific purposes.

If we have consent to use your personal information, you have the right to remove it at any time. If you want to remove your consent, contact DataProtection@Swindon.gov.uk

The Safeguarding Adults Team works together with other agencies to help keep adults in Swindon safe from harm and protect their rights.

In the course of working with you, we may collect information from, or share it, with some third parties, for instance Police or Health Services e.g. your GP, but only if there is a need to do so in order for the Adult Safeguarding Team to fulfil its responsibilities under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014.

This data sharing enables us to personalise your care and ensure that you are receiving the best support possible.

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Requesting access to your personal data
Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information we hold about you. To make a request for your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer by e-mailing DataProtection@swindon.gov.uk Telephone: 01793 445500
You also have the right to:

• object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
• prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
• object to decisions being taken by automated means
• in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
• claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with us in the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Records will be retained for no longer than 6 years from the last involvement with adult social care, or 10 years where there is a criminal investigation, before being securely destroyed.

Under GDPR you have rights which you can exercise free of charge which allow you to:

• know what we are doing with your information and why we are doing it
• ask to see what information we hold about you (subject access request)
• ask us to correct any mistakes in the information we hold about you
• object to direct marketing
• make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office

Depending on our reason for using your information you may also be entitled to:

• ask us to delete information we hold about you
• have your information transferred electronically to yourself or to another organisation
• object to decisions being made that significantly affect you
• object to how we are using your information
• stop us using your information in certain ways

We will always seek to comply with your request however we may be required to hold or use your information to comply with legal duties. Please note, your request may delay or prevent us delivering a service to you.
For further information about your rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under GDPR on the ICO website

In the event that you wish to complain about the way that your personal data has been handled by Swindon Borough Council, you should write to the Data Protection Officer and clearly outline your case. Your complaint will then be investigated in accordance with our customer complaint procedure.

If you remain dissatisfied with the way your personal data has been handled, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk . You may refer the matter to the Information Commissioner’s Office whose contact details are below:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Email: casework@ico.org.uk

This website also contains information on data protection and your rights and remedies.

You are under no statutory obligation to provide personal data to us. However, if you do not provide your data, it will limit the effectiveness of the services and support that we are able to offer you.

A yearly audit will take place on personal data to ensure that we remain legally compliant in accordance with current data protection legislation.

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