Consent
During your contact with the council you will be informed of how you, or your children's, information will be used and shared with other services or organisations.
We will usually seek your consent prior to processing or sharing your information. If you object you must inform the council, however, if there is a legal reason, as outlined under the Data Protection Act, we may not require your consent, for example:
- to protect a child, a vulnerable adult, or member of the public
- where the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of the prevention and/or detection of crime
- tax or duty assessment
- required by court or law
Where we need to disclose sensitive or confidential information such as medical details to other partners, we will do so only with your prior explicit consent or where we are legally required to. We may disclose information when necessary to prevent risk of harm to an individual.