Privacy information: local authority employees
Details of the personal data the Department for Education (DfE) processes about the workforce in local authorities.
Applies to England
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This document details what personal data DfE processes about the workforce in local authorities, including social work professionals that have responsibility for social work-related services.
The DfE Personal information charter has details about the standards you can expect when we collect, hold or use your personal information.
Updates to this page
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Added information about how long complaints are kept when they are made to TRA but not accepted as referrals. We have also updated the formatting to make the document easier to read.
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Updated the information in 'Using your data when you make a complaint about education providers, children’s social care or DfE' and 'Using your data when you make a referral of serious teacher misconduct to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)'.
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Added the section 'Using your data to administer DfE's risk protection agreement'.
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Updated data processors section for ‘using your data to support learner assessments’. We have also updated the ‘data sharing’ section to provide details of when we share your special category data.
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Added sections 9.2 'Using your data when you make a complaint about education providers, children’s social care or DfE' and 9.3 'Using your data when you make a referral of serious teacher misconduct to the TRA'.
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Added sections for using data: when a child is looked after by local authorities, when a child is in need, for learner assessments, when we receive a Serious Incident Notification and when you use DfE Sign-In. We have also updated the section 'Using your data when you contact us'.
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