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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

Email

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.

Training

  • Personal information including your name, contact details employer data.
  • A log of any training courses you attend and/or have completed.
  • Technical information associated with accessing the system such as IP address, internet browser type, operating system.

All information held on the database is securely stored. We keep a record of your personal details, past training dates, and employer information for up to 5 years from the date you last access the system. Training registration details including name and contact information may be shared with commissioned organisations to deliver training updates and safeguarding information.

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. We use the following cookies on our website:

  • Google Analytics cookies: _ga, _gid, _gat

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data

  • phew_cookie_popup (used to know that the popup has been dimssed)

This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on this website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie

  • Session Cookies

A session cookie stores your browsing information and is active until you leave the site and close your browser after which it is deleted.

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 will be reviewed on 22nd April 2024.