Why we are asking for your information?
Aberdeen City Council’s Autism Outreach Service supports children and young people in school diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A request has been made to the Autism Outreach Service for us to come and support you in school. The information we collect in this form is used to make decisions to help and support you when you are in school. Sometimes we will add information to records about you as part of an automated process, so that it is easier and quicker for us to manage. Decisions about you are not made in an automated way. Any decisions about the help that you need will be discussed with you and your family.
Aberdeen City Council will only share information to get help for you. An agreement has been made between the police, health, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Aberdeen City councils to share information. Your information might be shared with Education, Health, Police, Social work or a charity. We will ask you who you want your information to be shared with before we share it.
How long we keep your information for?
Throughout the time that we are helping and supporting you we will keep records on the support you have been given and how well it is going. We will keep this information for 1 year from the date you stop receiving help from our service. We may keep some information, such as the type of support and how long we helped you, but any personal and private details will be removed so that no one will know the information is about you. We keep this kind of information so that we can see how well the service is supporting children and young people with an ASD in Aberdeen.
Your rights
You’ve got legal rights about the way the Council handles and uses your data, which include the right to ask for a copy of it, and to ask us to stop doing something with your data.
See more information about all of the rights you have and details of how to contact the Council’s Data Protection Officer.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office. They are the body responsible for making sure organisations like the Council handle your data lawfully.
Our legal basis
Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for this information about you. Wherever the Council processes personal data, we need to make sure we have a legal basis for doing so in law. The Council understands our legal basis for processing personal data in relation to a Child’s Plan as part of our public task under the Education (Scotland) Act 2018, Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2009 and the Children and Young people (Scotland) Act 2014. In carrying out this function the Council is also likely to process special categories of personal data, for example, information about your religion and ethnic origin. The Council understands our legal basis for doing so because processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.