When our children's social care service is involved with your family, we'll collect and share details about you to help us provide the services, support and care that you and your family need. For example, if your child has special educational needs, we need to know what those needs are so we can tailor our support to your child.

Collecting information helps us to fulfil our requirements, measure our performance, and make decisions based on relevant statistics. We’ll never use statistics in a way that identifies you or your child.

You can read more about how we store and use your data in our privacy policy.

Who we ask for information

When social workers are assessing your child's needs, they may ask for your information from other agencies such as health services, the probation service, or other organisations. In most cases they’ll ask for your consent before doing this, but sometimes they’ll do so without your consent if they need to protect your child.

Who we share information with

We’re required to pass on some of the information we collect to the Department for Education (DfE). This doesn't include the names of individual children. The DfE use this information to help them develop policies, manage council performance, and to help develop good practice.

Seeing a copy of your data

If you want to see a copy of the data we hold and share about you, please contact us.