By submitting this referral, your information will be shared with your Local Authority, the Connect to Work South East Wales Accountable Body, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Connect to Work Evaluation Teams and third-party local support organisations. We only ask for information we need to help provide you with up to date, impartial information, advice and guidance.
Your information will be shared for the following purposes:
- To contact you to discuss Connect to Work and what taking part will entail
- To check whether you are eligible to join Connect to Work
- To support the delivery and evaluation of Connect to Work
- For employment and training
- For research
- For evaluation
- DWP may get information about you from other parties for any of DWP’s purposes as the law allows to check the information you provide and improve its services DWP may give information about you to other organisations as the law allows, for example to protect against crime
- Those not eligible may be referred to alternative employment provisions within your local authority area to provide employment services/support.
Connect to Work is committed to protecting your personal information and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your personal information will be held for 7 years after completion of the project, in line with Connect to Work data retention periods.
Under the rights of data subject access granted by GDPR, you have the right to:
- Find out / access the information the Connect to Work project holds on you
- Require us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
- Object to processing on grounds relating to your particular situation (in some circumstances)
- Restrict processing (in some circumstances)
- Have your data erased (in certain circumstances)
- Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) who is the independent regulator for data protection.
ICO contact details
Website: ICO – Make a complaint
Telephone Number: 0303 123 1113
Lawful basis for processing
Cardiff Council will be the data controller for any personal data you have provided in relation to the Connect to Work employability programme. The information will be processed as part of our public task and the official authority vested in us to undertake the core role and functions of the employability programme.
Article 6(1)(e) – Public task: the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority, with a clear basis in law.
What personal data we will collect and process
Personal data is defined under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier’.
For this employability programme we will collect the following personal data:
- First Name(s)
- Surname
- Address
- Personal email address
- Phone number
- Participant’s National Insurance number
- Date of birth
Other data may also be collected but is not identified as personal data under UK GDPR.
Under Article 9(2)(g) UK GDPR – Reasons of substantial public interest (with a basis in law) as its legal basis. The specific substantial public interest condition set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the DPA 2018; is Part 2 (8) applies: Equality of opportunity or treatment.
Special Category Data:
- Work Limiting Health Condition
- Ethnicity
- Disability status
- Support needs
To find out more about DWP’s purposes, how DWP use personal information for those purposes and your information rights, including how to request a copy of your information, please visit gov.uk.
To find out more about Connect to Work’s purposes, how they use personal information for those purposes and your information rights, including how to request a copy of your information, please contact Connect to Work.
