Access to Personal information held in social care files
If you are currently receiving a service from Children’s Services or Adult Social care, and have a query about your personal information, please contact your allocated social worker in the first instance.
With regard to requests for access to personal information held in closed social care files, you can find out if we hold any personal information about you by making a ‘subject access request’ under UK data protection law. If we do hold information about you, we will:
- Give you a description of it
- Tell you why we are holding it
- Tell you who it could be disclosed to, and
- Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.
We handle all information in a manner that respects the rights of individuals and which complies with the requirements of UK data protection legislation. Please see further information below.
Privacy Notice
Please take time to read the below Social Care privacy notices. This will explain what information we hold about you, why we hold it and when we will contact you.
| Privacy Notice - Adult Social Care |  (pdf 72KB) |
| ASC COVID 19 Privacy Notice FINAL | (pdf 45KB) |
| Children's Social Care Privacy Notice | (pdf 99KB) |