We collect your information to:

  • provide specialist qualified teachers, habilitation officer, teaching assistants and IT specialists to work in homes, childcare settings, nurseries, primary and secondary schools and colleges in Stockport to provide specialist intervention to babies, children and young people aged 0 to 25 years with a permanent or long term hearing loss and/or vision impairment from the time of diagnosis to when they leave the service aged 25 years, move out of borough or no longer require or want service provision.

What type(s) of information do we use?

  • contact details
  • demographic information
  • family and relationship details
  • referral, assessment, development and education plan
  • national unique identifiers
  • education data
  • race/ethnic origin
  • clinical and medical information about hearing loss/vision impairment from the NHS
  • safeguarding information

What is the legal basis for using your information?

Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or statutory function of the Council.

Where do we get your information?

  • yourself
  • NHS
  • childcare setting, nurseries, schools, colleges or other education providers
  • care providers including family members
  • other Local Authority children’s service providers
  • other Local Authorities

Who do we share your information with?

  • childcare setting, nurseries, schools, colleges or other education providers
  • care providers including family members
  • other Local Authorities
  • NHS

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 some or all of the decisions we make about you do not 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.