You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
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You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
The processing of personal data is governed by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), collectively referred to as data protection law.
Suffolk County Council is the controller for the personal information that is being processed.
Contact details for the council’s Data Protection Officer and Compliance Manager can be found in the council’s corporate privacy notice, which is available on the council’s website.
The categories of information that we collect, process, hold and share include:
We collect this information to:
We collect and use your personal information to provide an effective Local Welfare Assistance Scheme and to meet our duties in administering services and funds from central government allocations.
SCC has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data. In some cases the law may require that personal information has to be shared with other agencies without prior agreement, this will be to protect people who may be at risk of harm.
Any personal information should be shared on the basis that it is:
We keep personal data for as long as we need it to fulfil the purpose that it was collected for, and in line with any statutory or locally determined retention periods.
At the end of its retention period all personal data will be securely destroyed.
We do not transfer any personal data to any countries or international organisations outside of the EU or the EEA (European Economic Area), or any other country that does not have an equivalent level of data protection to the UK.
For processing personal data, we rely on the following lawful basis:
We use some of your information to check your eligibility using the Department for Work and Pensions central government systems. We also use your information to check against data held within Suffolk County Council to qualify your applications.
We may share your information with district and borough councils in Suffolk to check your eligibility for the Local Welfare Assistance Scheme and other future schemes that may be available from district and borough councils.
We share this information to ensure: