We collect your information to:

  • provide psychological assessment and intervention

  • to work collaboratively with you and other services to ensure the quality and appropriateness of educational provision for you or your child

  • advise others on how best to support you or your child

  • help us evaluate and improve our service

What type(s) of information do we use?

  • contact details
  • demographic information
  • family and relationship details
  • assessment information
  • national unique identifiers
  • health data
  • education data
  • social care
  • race/ethnic origin
  • safeguarding information
  • criminal offences, alleged offences and related proceedings

What is the legal basis for using your information?

  • for statutory work as part of EHC needs assessment – public task

  • for traded work commissioned by schools – explicit consent

Where do we get your information?

  • you
  • educational settings
  • health services
  • care providers, including family members
  • other local authority children’s services providers
  • other local authorities

Who do we share your information with?

  • you
  • educational settings
  • health services
  • care providers, including family members
  • other local authority children’s services providers
  • other local authorities

How long will we keep your information?

We retain from date of birth for 25 years unless a child or young person is looked after, in which case this would be 75 years.

Transferring your information outside of the European Union (EU)

We will not transfer your information outside of the EU.

Automated decisions using your information?

For this service all the decisions we make about you involve human intervention.


Your rights

In our guide on exercising your rights you can find information about how to:

  • exercise your rights
  • contact our Data Protection Officer
  • raise a concern with us
  • make a complaint to the Information Commissioner

You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Further information

If you would like further information about this privacy notice, please email dpa.officer@stockport.gov.uk

Updates (notice)

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in our primary privacy notice.

We may update or revise this privacy notice at any time. If you are reading this as a printed copy please refer to www.stockport.gov.uk for the most up to date version.