Adult Disability Employment Support Service

In order to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), where personal data relating to a data subject is collected, Lancashire County Council would like to provide you with the following details.

Identity and contact details of the data controller

Lancashire County Council, PO Box 78 County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8XJ

Contact details of the data protection officer

Our Data Protection Officer is Paul Bond. You can contact him at dpo@lancashire.gov.uk or Lancashire County Council, PO Box 78 County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8XJ

Purposes for processing

Lancashire County Council Employment Support Service is part of the Adult Disability Service. We have a County Team for the Employment Support Service that operates throughout Lancashire, the staff team are agile workers and work from bases within other Lancashire County Council offices across the county.

Support is delivered by a team of staff, including a Manager, Team Leaders, Employment Officers, and a Business Support Officer. The level of support is according to a person's assessed needs and can include the following support, advice, and guidance

Working with you to build your confidence and self esteem.
Looking for a job
Completing application forms
Building a CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Advice and guidance to match you with the right job to suit your experience and skills.
Support with interviews and interview techniques
Sourcing work trials so you can try a particular job and gain valuable experience.
'On the job' help to guide and support you through the early stages.
Continuous development planning, to ensure employment is sustainable.
Engaging with employers to negotiate training and reasonable adjustments.
Travel training to learn how to use public transport.
Support you to keep your job if you become disabled or are finding work difficult with your existing disability.

Category of personal data being processed

Personal data (information relating to a living, identifiable individual)
Special category personal data (racial, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation)

Legal basis for processing personal data

The legal basis for processing your personal data, in accordance with the UK GDPR is:

(a) Consent: the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose.

(e) Public Task: the processing is necessary for you to perform a task in the public interest or for your official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law. You must reference the applicable task/function and its' basis in law if you wish to rely on this basis for processing.

Supporting legislation

Care Act 2014 - Part 1, Assessing needs, section 9 Assessment of an adult's needs for care and support states that if it appears that an adult may have needs for care and support so the authority must assess.

Care Act 2014 - Part 1, Assessing needs, section 10 Assessment of a carer’s needs for support states a carer may have needs for support and the authority must access this.

Local Government Act 2000 - Section 2 gives the local authority the power to do anything they consider likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of the social wellbeing of their area.

Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 – Chapter 28

251B Duty to share information

This section applies in relation to information about an individual that is held by a relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider (“the relevant person”).

(2) The relevant person must ensure that the information is disclosed to—

Persons working for the relevant person, and
Any other relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider with whom the relevant person communicates about the individual.

Legal basis for processing special categories of personal data

The legal basis for processing your special categories of personal data, in accordance with the UK GDPR is:

(g) Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.

(h) Processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services.

Supporting legislation

Care Act 2014 - Part 1, Assessing needs, section 10 Assessment of a carer’s needs for support states a carer may have needs for support and the authority must access this.

Local Government Act 2000 - Section 2 gives the local authority the power to do anything they consider likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of the social wellbeing of their area.

Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 – Chapter 28

251B Duty to share information

This section applies in relation to information about an individual that is held by a relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider (“the relevant person”).

(2) The relevant person must ensure that the information is disclosed to—

Persons working for the relevant person, and

Any other relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider with whom the relevant person communicates about the individual.

Recipients of the data

Health professionals
Department for Work & Pensions
Job Centre Plus
Special Education Schools and Local Colleges

Information we share

The Employment Support Service collects and holds information about the people who are supported by the service. Our aim is only to hold information to help us give people the right support at the right time. However, we are also required by law and under regulation to hold some information about people.

People supported information:

Name
Date of Birth/Age
Contact Number/s
Email Address/s
Address
Next of kin details
Ethnicity and Religion
Other agency involvement
Health and safety information, risk assessments and accident/incident forms
Health conditions and medications
Care records including support plans and daily records

Employment records

Next of kin information:

Name
Date of Birth/Age
Contact Number/s
Email Address/s

Any transfers to another country

Retention periods

Lancashire County Council will only store your information for as long as is legally required or in situations where there is no legal retention period they will follow established best practice.

File type	Description	Security	Retention period
Client Records	Support Plans and reviews, Health and Safety information such as Incident forms and Risk Assessments Correspondence relating to day to day living to inform an individual's support	Destroy 5 years after death of service user or after case has been closed.	Client Records

Your rights

You have certain rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), these are the right:

to be informed via Privacy Notices such as this.
to withdraw your consent. If we are relying on your consent to process your data then you can remove this at any point.
of access to any personal information the council holds about yourself. To request a copy of this information you must make a subject access request in writing. You are entitled to receive a copy of your personal data within 1 calendar month of our receipt of your subject access request. If your request is complex then we can extend this period by a further two months, if we need to do this we will contact you. You can request a subject access request, either via a letter or via an email to Information Governance Team, address below.
of rectification, we must correct inaccurate or incomplete data within one month.
to erasure. You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing unless we have a legal obligation to process your personal information.
to restrict processing. You have the right to suppress processing. We can retain just enough information about you to ensure that the restriction is respected in future.
to data portability. We can provide you with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine readable form when asked.
to object. You can object to your personal data being used for profiling, direct marketing or research purposes.
in relation to automated decision making and profiling, to reduce the risk that a potentially damaging decision is taken without human intervention.

If you want to exercise any of these rights then you can do so by contacting:

Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
PO Box 78
County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XJ

Email: dpo@lancashire.gov.uk

To ensure that we can deal with your request as efficiently as possible you will need to include your current name and address, proof of identity (a copy of your driving licence, passport or two different utility bills that display your name and address), as much detail as possible regarding your request so that we can identify any information we may hold about you, this may include your previous name and address, date of birth and what council service you were involved with.

Further information

If you would like more information about this specific project then please contact employment.services@lancashire.gov.uk.

For more information about how we use personal information see Lancashire County Council's full privacy notice.

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the Information Governance team who will investigate the matter.

Lancashire County Council, PO Box 78 County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8XJ or email: dataprotection@lancashire.gov.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).