Westmorland and Furness Council privacy notice Healthy Child Programme

The Children Act 2004, as amended by the Children and Social Work Act 2017, places duties on key agencies in a local area. Specifically, the police, clinical commissioning groups and the local authority are under a duty to make arrangements to work together, and with other partners locally, to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in their area.

The Healthy Child Programme achieves this through services for health visiting, school nursing, oral health promotion, healthy weight and breastfeeding. In Westmorland and Furness, this is called the 0-19 Growing Healthy Service.

Health visiting

Deliver child health surveillance, health promotion, health protection and health improvement to the zero to five population and their families in homes and clinic or Family Hubs. 

As part of this work, data on new births shared by the NHS is passed on to Family Hubs, that will contact new parents to offer services and support.

School nursing

Review children’s health and development at key stages for children five to 19 who:

  • attend a Westmorland and Furness maintained school
  • attend a Free or Academy school
  • are educated at home

Oral health

The programme delivers supervised toothbrushing schemes as well as ensuring oral health key messages for children are widely known by training professionals about oral health in schools, Family Hubs or public venues.

Healthy weight

Height and weight screening is carried out as part of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) in Year 6 and Reception year.

This is a crucial programme for monitoring the progress in tackling childhood obesity in children aged four to five years and 10 to 11 years. We collect this information to understand how many children are overweight, healthy weight, or underweight. Results are not provided to the child or school, but are sent to parents/carers.

Results are provided to the NHS and anonymised results are shared with Public Health England. This anonymised data will not identify your child, and is used for monitoring weight trends and planning services that will best support children and families.

As part of the Healthy Weight offer, if your child meets the criteria, the team will follow up with families of identified overweight and obese children from National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) data.

They will offer a further health needs assessment to those children who might be over the healthy weight range to make lifestyle and dietary changes, helping to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. 

Schools and settings, GPs, health professionals and self-referrals are all welcome to contact the 0-19 Growing Healthy Service. If you’d like to contact the service, you can access them at Growing Healthy 0-19 Westmorland & Furness | HDFT Childrens Health Service.

Who provides the 0-19 Growing Healthy services

The 0-19 Growing Heathy (Healthy Child Programme) services listed above are duties of the council, and the council employs Harrogate District NHS Trust (HDFT) to provide trained nurses and health care professionals to deliver all of the services. HDFT is a health provider and under data protection law they are considered a data controller as well as the council for these services. You can read the HDFT Privacy Notices for more information about how they handle your personal data.

HDFT manages the service and the personal data day to day and provides anonymised statistics to the council regularly. The council does not routinely access the health data. It is partly the council’s responsibility to ensure that personal data of children and parents/carers involved in the Healthy Child Programme transfer between contractors if the service provider changes.

Safeguarding

During delivery of these services, if necessary to protect the child or other individual, safeguarding referrals may be necessary to the Council safeguarding team or the police.

What information we collect

We need some personal data from you. This includes:

  • name
  • address and contact details
  • date of birth
  • financial information (eligibility for benefits where that’s relevant to us providing you with support)
  • equalities information
  • criminal/prosecution information (where it impacts the services being delivered to individuals, who may be under the care of the Youth Offending Service)
  • health/medical information  
  • Social Services tecords 
  • other agencies involved 
  • education information 
  • housing information  
  • employment information
  • information from the Local Authority from where you live and previously lived
  • family/relationship Information
  • NHS number
  • support network
  • referral/assessment information
  • images in photographs or film/ CCTV (the health professional may discuss with you taking photographs or video of you to support individuals, for example, for an activity like a breastfeeding support group)

How we collect your data

We collect this data through the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

Why we collect your data

The 0-19 Growing Healthy Service collects personal, special category personal or criminal/law enforcement data to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

The Local Authorities (Public Health Functions and Entry to Premises by Local Healthwatch Representatives) and Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 require local authorities to commission delivery of specific universal elements of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), termed in the Regulations as Universal Health Visitor Reviews.

  • antenatal health promoting visit
  • new baby review
  • six to eight week assessment
  • one year assessment
  • two to two and a half year review

Who we share your personal data with

Where there is a lawful reason to do so the, the 0-19 Growing Healthy Service may share personal, special category personal or criminal/law enforcement data with:

  • health agencies
  • Council or similar services (for example Early Years, Public Health, Admissions, Family Help services and Family Hubs)
  • schools and settings
  • HMRC (for example, Free School Meals eligibility for benefits where that’s relevant to us providing you with support)
  • government departments (Office of Health Improvement and Disparities)
  • DWP
  • police
  • professional regulatory bodies
  • probation/prison services (where clients are under the responsibility of the Youth Offending Service)
  • UK Border Agency
  • insurance companies 
  • other local authorities
  • Ofsted
  • voluntary agencies or third sector
  • housing providers (eligibility for benefits where that’s relevant to us providing you with support)
  • Home Office (eligibility for benefits where that’s relevant to us providing you with support, or where we are supporting asylum seekers)

The 0-19 Growing Healthy Service may receive personal, special category personal or criminal/law enforcement data about you from the third parties mentioned above and other public bodies and organisations.  In this case, we will tell you the source of the information unless we are unable to do so by law. 

If personal data is being processed the Council must select at least one legal basis from the list below:

  • UKGDPR Article 6(1) (c) Legal Obligation
  • UKGDPR Article 6(1) (e) Public Task/Public Interest/Official Authority

If special category personal data is being processed:

  •  UKGDPR Article 9(2) (f) Necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims

Relevant legislation

  • The Children Act 2004
  • Healthy Child Programme 0 to 5 and 5 to 19 (2009)