Privacy Policy
Who we are
The Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership (BSCP) oversees how organisations work together to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and young people in Birmingham.
Birmingham City Council, West Midlands Police, NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board, working in close collaboration with Birmingham Children’s Trust, have a shared statutory responsibility for leading safeguarding arrangements to ensure that safeguarding children is everyone’s business. Our Executive Board is supported by a Safeguarding Leaders Assembly and Sub-Group structure which embeds learning from local child safeguarding practice reviews, commissions multi-agency training, and co-ordinates a programme of quality assurance and audit to continuously improve safeguarding practice.
The partnership works collaboratively across wide range of agencies to develop a transparent learning culture, implement best practice, and strives to make a real difference for children and young people across Birmingham.
Our website address is: https://www.lscpbirmingham.org.uk/
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Contact forms
If you sign up for our newsletter you opt-in to us saving your name and email address. This is so we can send the newsletter directly to your inbox. You have the option to opt out of the newsletter emails at any point.
Surveys
We may invite participants to complete surveys following events or projects in order to inform and improve future practice. Participation in these surveys is voluntary. Any information provided will be used solely for internal or multi-agency analysis and improvement purposes. Personal data will only be collected where necessary and handled in accordance with our privacy practices.
Training
We will collect certain personal information, including your name, phone numbers and e-mail address, when you register for our services or purchase our products. We maintain this information in our customer or application database. We may also collect additional information that you choose to tell us (e.g. disability, dietary requirements or demographics information) in connection with events or learning materials. We will not share this information with any third parties.
We will keep a log of the training courses you have attended with us in order to provide you with CPD (Continuing Professional Development) evidence. We will also retain and process completed course evaluations in order to quality assure the courses that we provide.
If you provide us with any personal information you should inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided. You can update your personal information by logging onto your training account.
Additional Information Collected Automatically: In some cases, when you connect to our website we may automatically (i.e., not via registration) collect technical information that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operation system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site.
Cookies
We use cookies for a number of reasons on our website, including; keeping any settings you changed for accessibility, counting visitor numbers and counting social sharing numbers.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you have signed up for one of our training courses, we will share the following information with the designated trainer: you name, contact details and special requirements.
How long we retain your data
We will not keep your information any longer than needed. The length of time will vary and will be guided by either legislation which states how long records should be retained or by the business need to keep the information which will vary. Your training record will be held for 5 years following the completion of a training course. Queries or a request for any other information regarding your training record can therefore only be answered if it falls within this period.
What rights you have over your data
You have certain rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. Specifically, you have:
- the right to be informed about the collection and the use of your personal data
- the right to access personal data and supplementary information
- the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete
- the right to erasure (to be forgotten) in certain circumstances
- the right to restrict processing in certain circumstances
- the right to data portability, which allows the data subject to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services
- the right to object to processing in certain circumstances
- rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
- the right to withdraw consent at any time (where relevant)
- the right to complain to the Information Commissioner
Where we send your data
Your personal data will be stored securely within the EEA and data will not be transferred outside of the EEA unless the specific requirements of the data protection legislation governing such transfers are met.
How we protect your data
BSCP follows internal policies and controls which are in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, or disclosed.
BSCP implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal data and information as part of an ongoing continuous review of security. We carry out regular reviews of BSCP information assurance and security policies and procedures and ensure all staff receive regular training on information governance and security.
What third parties we receive data from
Where BSCP engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, they do so under contract and on the basis of written instructions. Third parties are under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data and comply with data protection legislation.
Our contact information
If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your information rights or how your personal data is processed by BSCP, please email BSCP.ContactUs@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk or contact us on 0121 464 2612.
This policy was created on 21st April 2023. It was last reviewed on 16th May 2024, the date of the next review will be 16th May 2025.