Rochdale Working Well: In Work Progression Privacy Notice

Working Well: In Work Progression – This service will support residents who live or work in Rochdale, who are in work and within a low-income household to progress into more skilled and/or better paid work or increase their hours of work.

The programme will help people to overcome practical and skills barriers, increase their confidence to help them meet their potential, and provide specialist information on how they can develop skills for different employment sectors and job opportunities.

We collect personal information to make sure that we can carry out our work. The personal information we collect includes:

• Name, address and contact details of you and those who support you
• Date of birth
• Sex, gender
• Nationality, race, ethnicity, language
• Unique numbers, such as National Insurance number
• Benefits status and details
• Primary and secondary health data, including disability details (physical and mental)
• Employment and education status and details
• Application data – including your proof of ID and the right to work in UK, skill levels

When we collect personal information it may be about:

• Customers, service users and residents
• Extended family, for example, parents, children and siblings
• Carer or support provider

We use your personal information to:

• Provide advice regarding employment and training services/support
• Maintain accounts and records
• Provide referrals to complimentary or other necessary services
• Monitor the performance and progress of initiatives and services

We are allowed to process personal and sensitive data for the following reasons under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Articles and the Data Protection Act:

The legal basis under Article 6 of the UK GDPR for processing your personal information is:

(e) – public task: the processing is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority for official functions vested in the controller in accordance with the Local Government Act.

The legal basis under Article 9 of the UK GDPR for processing special category data is:

(b) – employment: the processing of special category data is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law.

(g) – substantial public interest: the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, see below conditions from the Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 1 (Part 2) that apply:

• (16) Support for individuals with a particular disability or medical condition
• (19) Safeguarding of economic well-being of certain individuals

We may share personal information about you with the following organisations:

• Professionals that are involved with you, including GPs, primary care and health care professionals, local health services, voluntary and community sector providers, Jobcentre Plus (DWP).
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority, who manage the Working Well: In Work Progression programme and the evaluation for the region
• Employers (actual and potential), including work experience, work trials and visits (if applicable). Employers will only be contacted with your permission
• Organisations working on our behalf to provide additional health and work-related training, advice, and support, such as:
  • Action Together
  • Build a Business
  • Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Digitech Library
  • Enterprising You
  • English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Advice Service
  • Groundwork
  • Hopwood Hall College
  • Mantra
  • National Careers Service
  • New Pioneers programme
  • Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH),
  • Rochdale Mind
  • Rochdale Training
  • Salvation Army
  • Support to Succeed (Employment Links Partnership and Great Places)
  • The Big Life Group
  • The Department for Work and Pensions (including Rochdale Borough Jobcentres)
  • The Growth Company
  • Upturn

We may be asked to provide your personal data by relevant authorities with regulatory powers such as the police, government departments and other local authorities for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime and/or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders without the permission of the data subject. The council will consider such requests on a case-by-case basis.