Rochdale WorkWell Privacy Notice

The Rochdale WorkWell Partnerships Programme is an early-intervention service that will support people who are at risk of falling out of work or who have stopped working recently because of their health conditions. It is work and health support and assessment service, providing holistic support to individuals to overcome health related barriers to employment, and provides a single joined up gateway to other support services through a locally led approach.

• Name, address and contact details of you and those who support you
• Date of birth
• Sex, gender
• Nationality, race, ethnicity, language
• Unique numbers, such as National Insurance number
• Benefits status and details
• Primary and secondary health data, including disability details (physical and mental)
• Employment and education status and details
• Application data – including your proof of ID and the right to work in UK, skill levels

• Customers, service users and residents
• Extended family, for example, parents, children and siblings
• Carer or support provider

• Provide advice regarding employment and training services/support
• Maintain accounts and records
• Provide referrals to complimentary or other necessary services
• Monitor the performance and progress of initiatives and services

We are allowed to process personal and sensitive data for the following reasons under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Articles and the Data Protection Act:

The legal basis under Article 6 of the UK GDPR for processing your personal information is:

(e) Public task: the processing is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority for official functions vested in the controller in accordance with the Local Government Act.

The legal basis under Article 9 of the UK GDPR for processing special category data is:

(b) Employment: the processing of special category data is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law.

(g) Substantial public interest: the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, see below conditions from the Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 1 (Part 2) that apply:

• (16) Support for individuals with a particular disability or medical condition
• (19) Safeguarding of economic well-being of certain individuals

We may share personal information about you with the following organisations:

• Delivery partners commissioned by the Council to provide WorkWell services and support:
  • Rochdale Mind for wellbeing support
• Professionals that are involved with you, including GPs, primary care and health care professionals, local health services, voluntary and community sector providers, Jobcentre Plus (DWP).
• The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) who fund and evaluate the WorkWell programme.
• NHS Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, who manage the WorkWell programme for the region.
• Employers (actual and potential), including work experience, work trials and visits (if applicable). Employers will only be contacted with your permission
• Organisations working on our behalf to provide additional health and work-related training, advice, and support, such as:
  • Action Together
  • Build a Business
  • Enterprising You
  • Upturn
  • Salvation Army
  • The Big Life Group
  • Rochdale Mind
  • Support to Succeed (Employment Links Partnership and Great Places)
  • Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH)
  • The Department for Work and Pensions (including Rochdale Borough Jobcentres)
  • The Growth Company
  • Groundwork
  • Hopwood Hall College
  • Rochdale Training
  • National Careers Service
  • Digitech Library
  • English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Advice Service
  • Citizens Advice Bureau
  • New Pioneers programme

We may be asked to provide your personal data by relevant authorities with regulatory powers such as the police, government departments and other local authorities for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime and/or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders without the permission of the data subject. The council will consider such requests on a case-by-case basis.