Complex Safeguarding Privacy Notice

Complex Safeguarding is a term used to describe criminal activity (often organised) or behaviour associated with criminality, involving children and adults, where there is exploitation and/or a clear or implied safeguarding concern. This includes child criminal exploitation, county lines, modern slavery including, trafficking and child sexual exploitation. Children and adults are targeted and subjected to serious harm, which is primarily, although not exclusively, outside the family.

The Complex Safeguarding Team is a multi-agency team (made up of social workers, Police, Health and parenting support) focused on tackling child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child criminal exploitation (CCE) in Rochdale.

We collect personal information to make sure that we can carry out our work. The personal information we collect includes:

• Name, address and contact details, including email addresses.
• Age and date of birth.
• Attainment or educational data.
• Health or medical records, including disabilities.
• Crime or offending information.
• Employment data.
• Ethnicity or nationality.
• Financial, including bank details.
• Identifiers, such as National Insurance numbers.
• Marital status.
• Memberships of organisations.
• Photographs.
• Political opinions.
• Religion.
• Sexuality.

When we collect personal information it may be about:

• Customers, service users and residents.
• Extended family, such as parents, children and siblings.
• Pupils and students.
• Carers.
• Complainants.
• Employees.
• Offenders.

We use your personal information for:

• Safeguarding the welfare of children, adults and young people.
• Crime prevention and prosecution.
• Provision of support and guidance to young people.
• Provision of services focused on individual or family health.
• Managing complaints and allegations.
• Supporting investigations and audits.
• Reporting and collating statistics.
• Identifying themes and patterns of behaviour to ensure proactive multi-agency responses. 

We're required by law to safeguard children. This is detailed in legislation and guidance including:

• The Children Act 1989 and 2004
• Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018

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

• To comply with a legal obligation.
• For a public task or statutory function.
• For vital interests, such as cases of life or death.
• Substantial public interest.
• To provide health and social care .

We collect information from and disclose information to individuals and organisations that can support our work including:

• Customers and their families.
• Affected parties and complainants.
• Council departments.
• Elected members and MPs.
• Health and healthcare organisations.
• Law enforcement and prosecuting agencies.
• Partner agencies and service providers, such as schools and the probation service.
• Other public bodies and authorities.
• Schools and higher education providers.

• Safeguarding adults at risk
• Safeguarding children and child protection

Contact the team