Our privacy notice for staff, trustees, governors and role holders

Speech and Language UK is the operating name of I CAN Charity.

I CAN is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. We recognise that your privacy is important and we take our responsibility for safeguarding your personal data very seriously. We are also committed to being transparent about how we collect and use your data and to meeting our data protection obligations.

The purpose of this privacy notice is to let you know clearly how I CAN collects and uses personal data about you during and after your working relationship with us. I CAN is committed to being transparent about how it collects, uses and discloses your personal data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

I CAN is a ‘data controller’. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice. In this Privacy Notice, references to “I CAN”, “we”, “us”, “our” and “the organisation” mean the I CAN charity, including our schools. The registered address of I CAN is 31 Angel Gate, Goswell Road, London, EC1V 2PT.

Your main point of contact for data protection queries is the Data Protection Officer, Satswana Limited, Pembroke House, St. Christopher’s Place, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0NH, Tel 01252 516898 or email info@satswana.com

‘Staff’ means employees, workers, agency staff and those retained on a temporary or permanent basis.

‘Trustees, Governors and Role Holders’ includes, volunteers, contractors, agents, and other role holders within the I CAN, Meath School and Dawn House School including former staff and former Governors. This also includes applicants or candidates for any of these roles.

In this Privacy Notice, references to “I CAN”, “we”, “us”, “our” and “the organisation” mean the I CAN charity, including our schools

Your personal data – what is it?

‘Personal data’ is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photograph, video, email address, or address). Identification can be directly using the data itself or by combining it with other information which helps to identify a living individual (e.g. a list of staff may contain personnel ID numbers rather than names but if you use a separate list of the ID numbers which give the corresponding names to identify the staff in the first list then the first list will also be treated as personal data). The processing of personal data is governed by legislation relating to personal data which applies in the United Kingdom including the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act.

I CAN work together with:

  • Other data controllers, such as local authorities, public authorities, central government and agencies such as DfE, ESFA, OFSTED, HMRC and DVLA
  • Staff pension providers
  • Former and prospective employers
  • DBS services suppliers
  • Payroll services providers
  • Recruitment Agencies
  • Credit reference agencies
  • SEN Professionals
  • Other Organisations, including Schools, Nurseries, Children’s Centres, Social Enterprises and other charities

We may need to share personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out their responsibilities to I CAN and our community. The organisations referred to above will sometimes be ‘joint data controllers’. This means we are all responsible to you for how we process your data where for example two or more data controllers are working together for a joint purpose. If there is no joint purpose or collaboration then the data controllers will be independent and will be individually responsible to you.

I CAN will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal data we hold about you must be:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  • Accurate and kept up to date.
  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  • Kept and destroyed securely including ensuring that appropriate technical and security measures are in place to protect your personal data to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure.

What data do we process?

  • Names, titles, and aliases, photographs.
  • Start date/leaving date
  • Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses.
  • Where they are relevant to our legal obligations, or where you provide them to us, we may process information such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, nationality, education/work history, academic/professional qualifications, employment details, hobbies, family composition, and dependants.
  • Non-financial identifiers such as staff identification numbers, tax reference codes, and national insurance numbers.
  • Financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers.
  • Financial information such as National Insurance number, pay and pay records, tax code, tax and benefits contributions, expenses claimed.
  • Other operational personal data created, obtained, or otherwise processed in the course of carrying out our activities, including logs of accidents, injuries and insurance claims.
  • Next of kin and emergency contact information.
  • Recruitment information (including copies of right to work in the UK, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process and referral source (e.g. agency, staff referral).
  • Location of employment or workplace.
  • Other staff data (not covered above) including; Salary, pension and benefits information; level, performance management information, attendance at work; details of periods of leave; assessments of performance, including annual appraisals, training you have participated in, performance improvement plans and related correspondence; licences/certificates, immigration status; employment status; information for disciplinary and grievance proceedings; and personal biographies.
  • CCTV footage and other information obtained through electronic means such as swipecard records
  • Information about your use of our information and communications systems.

We may also collect, store and use the following categories of more sensitive personal data:

  • Information about your health, including any medical condition, sickness absence and health and sickness records, including whether or not you have a disability for which the organisation needs to make reasonable adjustments
  • information relating to accidents or incidents in the workplace;
  • details of trade union membership where deductions are taken from our payroll;
  • details of references provided by previous employers or other referees;
  • equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health and religion or belief; and
  • information about your criminal convictions and offences, where applicable.

How is your personal data collected and stored?

I CAN may collect your personal data in a variety of ways. For example, much of the personal data may be collected from you directly through application forms, CVs or resumes and covering letters; obtained from your passport or other identity documents such as your driving licence; from forms completed by you at the start of or during employment (such as benefit nomination forms); from correspondence with you; or through interviews, meetings or other assessments.

In some cases, I CAN may collect personal data about you from other internal sources, such as your manager, or in some cases third parties, such as references supplied by former employers and information from criminal records checks permitted by law.

Your personal data will be stored in a range of different places, including in your personnel file, in the organisation’s HR people management systems and in other IT systems (including the organisation’s email system) and the organisation’s employee self-service system and payroll system, which is currently outsourced to a data processor under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulations.

We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes: –

Please note: We need all the categories of personal data in the list above primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations.

  • Making a decision about your recruitment or appointment.
  • Determining the terms on which you work for us.
  • Checking you are legally entitled to work in the UK.
  • Paying you and, if you are an employee, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions.
  • Providing any contractual benefits to you
  • Liaising with your pension provider.
  • Administering the contract we have entered into with you.
  • Management and planning, including accounting and auditing.
  • Making decisions about salary reviews and compensation.
  • Assessing qualifications for a particular job or task, including decisions about promotions.
  • Operate and keep a record of employee performance and related processes, to plan for career development, and for succession planning and workforce management purposes
  • Conducting grievance, capability or disciplinary proceedings.
  • Making decisions about your continued employment or engagement.
  • Making arrangements for the termination of our working relationship.
  • Education, training and development requirements.
  • Dealing with legal disputes involving you, including accidents at work.
  • Ascertaining your fitness to work.
  • Managing sickness absence.
  • Obtaining occupational health advice, to ensure that it complies with duties in relation to individuals with disabilities
  • Complying with health and safety obligations.
  • Preventing fraud.
  • Monitoring your use of our information and communication systems to ensure compliance with our IT policies.
  • Ensuring network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our computer and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution.
  • Conducting data analytics studies to review and better understand employee retention and attrition rates.
  • Equal opportunities monitoring.
  • Undertaking activity consistent with our statutory functions and powers including any delegated functions.
  • Maintaining our own accounts and records;
  • Seeking your views or comments;
  • Processing a job application;
  • Administering Trustees’ and Governors’ interests, including any conflicts of interest;
  • Providing references.

Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal data.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:

  • Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests).
  • Where it is needed in the public interest [or for official purposes].

How we use sensitive personal data

We may process sensitive personal data relating to staff, Governors and role holders including, as appropriate:

  • information about your physical or mental health or condition in order to monitor sick leave and take decisions on your fitness for work;
  • information about health or medical conditions is processed to carry out our obligations (such as those in relation to individuals with disabilities or for health and safety purposes)
  • information about criminal convictions and offences is processed to comply with our legal obligations due to the nature of our business and the role that you perform
  • information about trade union membership is processed to allow the organisation to deduct trade union subscriptions, where requested.
  • your racial or ethnic origin or religious or similar information in order to monitor compliance with equal opportunities legislation;
  • in order to comply with legal requirements and obligations to third parties.

These types of data are described in the GDPR as ‘Special categories of data’ and require higher levels of protection. We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal data.

We may process special categories of personal data in the following circumstances:

  • In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
  • Where we need to carry out our legal obligations.
  • Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our pension scheme.
  • Where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

Less commonly, we may process this type of personal data where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.

Do we need your consent to process your sensitive personal data?

  • We do not need your consent if we use your sensitive personal data in accordance with our rights and obligations in the field of employment and social security law.
  • In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain sensitive personal data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the personal data that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.
  • You should be aware that it is not a condition of your contract with us that you agree to any request for consent from us.

Information about criminal convictions

  • We may only use personal data relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our data protection policy.
  • Less commonly, we may use personal data relating to criminal convictions where it is necessary in relation to legal claims, where it is necessary to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.
  • We will only collect personal data about criminal convictions if it is appropriate given the nature of the role and where we are legally able to do so.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Some of our processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.

We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps to enter into a contract.

We will also process your data in order to assist you in fulfilling your role in the School including administrative support or if processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.

If you fail to provide personal data

You have some obligations under your employment contract to provide the organisation with data. In particular, you are required to report absences from work and may be required to provide information about disciplinary or other matters under the implied duty of good faith. You may also have to provide the organisation with data in order to exercise your statutory rights, such as in relation to statutory leave entitlements. Failing to provide the data may mean that you are unable to exercise your statutory rights.

Certain information, such as contact details, your right to work in the UK and payment details, have to be provided to enable the organisation to enter a contract of employment with you. If you do not provide other information, this will hinder the organisation’s ability to administer the rights and obligations arising as a result of the employment relationship efficiently.

Sharing your personal data

Your information will be shared internally, for the purposes set out above, to staff involved with HR and payroll, line managers, and the outsourced IT supplier if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles.

Your personal data will only be shared with third parties including other data controllers where it is necessary for the performance of the data controllers’ tasks or where you first give us your prior consent. It is likely that we will need to share your data with:

  • Our agents, suppliers and contractors. For example, we may ask a commercial provider to manage our HR/ payroll functions, or to maintain our database software;
  • Other persons or organisations operating within local community.
  • Other data controllers, such as local authorities, public authorities, central government and agencies such as HMRC
  • Staff pension providers
  • Former and prospective employers references
  • DBS services suppliers
  • Payroll services providers
  • Provision of Occupational Health Services
  • Recruitment Agencies
  • Credit reference agencies
  • Professional advisors
  • Trade unions or employee representatives

How long do we keep your personal data?

We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. We may keep some other records for an extended period of time. For example, it is currently best practice to keep financial records for a minimum period of 8 years to support HMRC audits or provide tax information. We may have legal obligations to retain some data in connection with our statutory obligations as a public authority. I CAN is permitted to retain data in order to defend or pursue claims. In some cases the law imposes a time limit for such claims (for example 3 years for personal injury claims or 6 years for contract claims). We will retain some personal data for this purpose as long as we believe it is necessary to be able to defend or pursue a claim. In general, we will endeavour to keep data only for as long as we need it. This means that we will delete it when it is no longer needed.

Your responsibilities

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your working relationship with us.

Your rights in connection with personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data: –

When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights.

  1. The right to access personal data we hold on you
  • At any point you can contact us to request the personal data we hold on you as well as why we have that personal data, who has access to the personal data and where we obtained the personal data from. Once we have received your request we will respond within one month.
  • There are no fees or charges for the first request but additional requests for the same personal data or requests which are manifestly unfounded or excessive may be subject to an administrative fee.
  1. The right to correct and update the personal data we hold on you
  • If the data we hold on you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and your data will be updated.
  1. The right to have your personal data erased
  • If you feel that we should no longer be using your personal data or that we are unlawfully using your personal data, you can request that we erase the personal data we hold.
  • When we receive your request we will confirm whether the personal data has been deleted or the reason why it cannot be deleted (for example because we need it for to comply with a legal obligation).
  1. The right to object to processing of your personal data or to restrict it to certain purposes only
  • You have the right to request that we stop processing your personal data or ask us to restrict processing. Upon receiving the request we will contact you and let you know if we are able to comply or if we have a legal obligation to continue to process your data.
  1. The right to data portability
  • You have the right to request that we transfer some of your data to another controller. We will comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so, within one month of receiving your request.
  1. The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time for any processing of data to which consent was obtained
  • You can withdraw your consent easily by telephone, email, or by post (see Contact Details below).
  1. The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
  • You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Transfer of Data Abroad

Any personal data transferred to countries or territories outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) will only be placed on systems complying with measures giving equivalent protection of personal rights either through international agreements or contracts approved by the European Union. [Our website is also accessible from overseas so on occasion some personal data (for example in a newsletter) may be accessed from overseas].

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Privacy Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing, if we start to use your personal data for a purpose not mentioned in this notice.

Changes to this notice

We keep this Privacy Notice under regular review and saved in the Policies folder on the Infosys drive. This notice was last updated in June 2020.

Contact Details

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the personal data we hold about you or to exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints at:

Our data protection officer is Satswana Limited, Pembroke House, St. Christopher’s Place, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0NH, Tel 01252 516898 or email info@satswana.com

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.