Summer bank holiday
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Privacy Notice for Strategic Commissioning - Children's and Families
At its simplest, commissioning is the process of assessing needs, planning, agreeing and monitoring services.
Commissioning is not one action but many, ranging from undertaking needs assessments for a population, through the design of service pathways, to service specification and contract negotiation or procurement, with continuous quality assessment.
The process, which is ongoing, is often described as a cycle:
The team, which is part of Children’s Services and Skills directorate, commissions services on behalf of other teams within the directorate, including services for Looked After Children, children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and children and young people with mental health difficulties. Primarily the services commissioned are statutory functions.
In the majority of cases, personal data will not be collected directly by the team, but is collected by the services we commission.
We need your information to:
We, and/or the services we commission, process a variety of information relating to individuals including:
We also process what is referred to as special categories of information that may include data revealing:
The classes of personal information we process include:
Where necessary or required we share information with:
We will not keep your information any longer than needed. The length of time will vary from service to service and will be guided by either legislation or the Council's internal retention records guidance which states how long records should be retained.
It may sometimes be necessary to transfer personal information overseas. When this is needed information may be transferred to countries or territories around the world. Any transfers made will be in full compliance with all aspects of the data protection act.
The team can be contacted by email childrenscommissioning@solihull.gov.uk or telephone 0121 704 6600.