How we use your information
Aberdeen City Council are required by law to undertake statutory consultations when considering changes to the school estate. By participating in this consultation you will help the Council understand your thoughts on proposed changes to the school estate in Aberdeen, and the impact that the proposals may have on the school community.
You can submit your response without giving us any personal details. If you choose to submit your name and contact details, we will use these to inform you, by email, when the final consultation report has been published, and to respond to any requests you make for additional information on the proposal. We won’t use your personal data for any other purpose If you no longer wish to be involved, please email schoolestate@aberdeencity.gov.uk
If you provide any comments, we may share a summary of these with Councillors (after removing any personal data) to help them make a decision on whether to implement the proposed changes. We may also use the comments in the consultation report, but you won’t be identified as having made the comments.
The consultation also asks questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing this information you help us to monitor the statistical data to ensure the Council is interacting in a balanced way with groups of people with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. The information will be used to assess the likely impact of the proposals on different groups of people with protected characteristics, and an anonymised summary of this will be shared with Councillors.
The Consultation report will be submitted to the Education and Children’s Services Committee and published on the Council’s website and will be available for inspection by the public.
Who we share information with
As part of the consultation process we need to share any written representations we receive with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) – Education Scotland.
How long we keep information for
We will keep your response until we have completed the analysis that will inform the consultation report. We will keep the anonymised summary information for one year from the end of the consultation.
The consultation report submitted to the Education and Children’s Services Committee, and published on the Council’s website will be kept permanently. This will not contain any data that can identify you as an individual.
Your rights
You have rights in relation to your data, including the right to ask for a copy of it. See more information about all the rights you have and how they work in practice, as well as contact details for the Council’s Data Protection Officer. You also have the right to make a complaint to the
They are the body responsible for making sure organisations like the Council handle your data properly.
Our legal basis
Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for your information. Wherever we process personal data we must have a legal basis in data protection law for doing so. The Council’s legal basis for this processing is that it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest and we have a legal obligation to share information with Education Scotland.
Where you have provided us with your name and email address to keep you updated about the consultation and the Council understands our legal basis for processing your data for this purpose as being consent. You can withdraw this at any time as explained above.
We may also process special categories of personal data, should you choose to provide equality and diversity information. The Council’s legal basis for doing so is that it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, of the purpose of equality monitor