Privacy statement

The Children’s Social Care jobs website is looked after by Improvement East on behalf of 11 authorities within the Eastern Region.

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for workforceeast.org.uk on how we use your personal information. It applies solely to this website; links within this website to other websites are not covered by this privacy statement.

This website does not hold or store personal information and personal information is not processed by Improvement East, or any other participating Local Authority, other than the case studies/blogs contributed by individuals for which they have provided their explicit consent. In such instances, only the name and job title/role within an identified Local Authority will be collected and shown.

More detailed personal information will not be requested at any time. Applying for a role through this website will take you to the recruitment page for the individual Local Authority, at which time more detailed personal information will be requested and the Local Authority’s own privacy statement will apply.

Your data subject rights, access and control of your personal information

Where we hold personal information in respect of case studies/blogs – we’ll:

• Provide records of what information we hold when you request this from us.
• Correct the information if you inform us it is inaccurate.
• Stop processing or delete this information if you ask us to.
  • To do this please email EasternRegionCIB@norfolk.gov.uk
• Individuals have the right to withdraw consent for their case studies/blogs to be used on the website at any time. Follow the instructions detailed on your original consent form and copy in EasternRegionCIB@norfolk.gov.uk, who will ensure that this is actioned.

If you have a question about anything covered in this privacy notice you can email the Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@southend.gov.uk.

For independent advice about data protection, privacy and data sharing issues, or to lodge a complaint about how we have handled your information, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

You can visit ico.org.uk or email casework@ico.org.uk

Alternatively you can write or telephone: Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate number.

Cookie Policy

How we use cookies

 A cookie is a text file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us to analyse data about web page traffic and improve our application system to tailor it to your needs.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some part of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

This website uses cookies to better the user experience whilst visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take the necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive, in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy for further information http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Notification of Changes

The Eastern Region Project Team reserves the right to change the privacy policy statement without notice. It is the responsibility of users to check the privacy statement regularly.

If you have any queries, please contact the project team at Southend: EasternRegionCIB@norfolk.gov.uk