The Essex Safeguarding Children Board (ESCB) is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services.
This Privacy Notice explains how we use information about you and how we protect your privacy. You can be assured that any information we collect about you will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
We have a Data Protection Officer who makes sure we respect your rights and follow the law. If you have any concerns or questions about how we look after your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Officer, Paul Turner, at DPO@essex.gov.uk or by calling 03457 430 430 and asking to speak to the Data Protection Officer.
Personal information can be anything that identifies and relates to a living person. This can include information that when put together with other information can then identify a person. For example, this could be your name and contact details.
There are a number of legal reasons why we need to collect and use your personal information. The privacy notices below explain these for each area.
We’ll do what we can to make sure we hold records about you (on paper and electronically) in a secure way, and we’ll only make them available to those who have a right to see them. Examples of our security include:
You can find more details of our Information Security expectations on our online policy.
If you have any worries or questions about how your personal information is handled please contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@essex.gov.uk or by calling 03457 430430.
For independent advice about data protection, privacy and data sharing issues, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate number.
Alternatively, visit ico.org.uk or email casework@ico.org.uk.
To make this website easier to use, we sometimes place small text files on your device (for example your iPad or laptop) called cookies. Most big websites do this too.
They improve things by:
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
We don’t use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies).
Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies.org or watch a video about cookies.
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting peoples’ needs and to understand how we can make the website work better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages on this site you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on while you are here.
We do not collect or store any other personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this data cannot be used to identify who you are.
Name |
Typical Content |
Expires |
_utma |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
_utmb |
randomly generated number |
30 minutes |
_utmc |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
_utmx |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
_utmxx |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
_utmz |
randomly generated number and data on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) |
We also collect data on the number of times a word is searched for and the number of failed searches. We use this information to improve access to the site and identify gaps in the content and see if it is something we should add to the site.
Unless the law allows us to, we do not:
We use videos from YouTube and feeds from other websites such as Facebook and Twitter. These websites place cookies on your device when watching or viewing these pages.
Below are links to their cookie policies:
You can stop cookies being downloaded on to your computer or other device by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
There is more information about how to delete or stop using cookies on AboutCookies.org. You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
Further guidance on the use of personal information can be found at ico.org.uk.
The Essex Safeguarding Children Board carries out work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Essex. This work includes:
In order to deliver this work we sometimes need to collect personal information. The sections below explain how we use your information in each of the services.
The three safeguarding partners in Essex (Local Authority, Essex Police and 5 Clinical Commissioning Groups) hold responsibility for:
There is an ongoing commitment to continuous learning and improvement leading to enhanced practice, improved outcomes and experiences. Safeguarding partners will continue to take account of the findings from all local and national reviews with a view to considering how identified improvements should be implemented locally. This includes the way in which organisations and agencies work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
For these reasons we collect the following information on our referral forms:
Child/Children
Name of Child / Children
Date/s of Birth
Date/s of death (if applicable)
Date/s of critical incident
Home address/es
Ethnic origin/s
Are they subject to a Child Protection Plan and/or in receipt of other services?
Whereabouts at time of critical incident
Carer/s at time of critical incident
Family Composition/Significant Others
Name
Relationship to child
DoB
Address
Legal Status and/or current criminal proceedings
Ethnic Origin
Is/was subject of a Child Protection Plan and/or in receipt of other services
For chronologies (historically Individual Management Review) we request any significant information in relation to the subject under review and their families/significant others. These include personal information such as name, age, address and medical information.
We will share this information with:
It is a statutory requirement to publish the findings from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and all reports are fully anonymised to protect the identity of the children and families involved.
For the purposes of learning and development opportunities we ask you for the following information when you book a course
At the learning and development course/workshop you will be asked to sign in, this is only used to confirm your attendance at the course and is destroyed once the database of attendees has been updated. Any information about access requirements will also be deleted as soon as the course has been completed.
The following information is held by ESCB for 5 years after the course dates for the purposes of anonymous learning and development reports and as a record of when people attended training.
The following information is destroyed once payment has been received, 4 week online post course evaluation completed and certificate sent
Evaluation forms are kept for one year from the course date for monitoring and evaluation purposes and as a record of whether you consented to be added to our email distribution list.
If you sign up to receive communications from the ESCB (bulletins, policy updates, and campaign and event details) we will collect and store your name and email address. This information will not be shared outside of the organisation. Your details will be stored until you request to no longer receive updates from the ESCB, in which case they will be deleted from the system.
We take your privacy seriously and will only use it for the reasons stated above.