Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice: CB EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION

This Privacy Notice tells you about what information we collect about you, how we use that information and who we share it with.

1. Who we are and what we do?

This Privacy Notice provides privacy information for early years providers, schools and academies in the UK. 

Providers include:

• School nursery units and Maintained Nursery Schools

• Private, Voluntary and Independent nurseries

• All wrap around care and out of school clubs

• Childminders

• Prospective childcare providers

To provide services to you, we will collect and hold information about you. This may include:

• Basic details such as name, address, date of birth and contact details

• Dietary requirements and any information about accessible needs for training

purposes.

• Financial information/bank details (to enable you to be funded)

• Relevant experience and qualifications

• Visit record notes including training, support and development requirements.

• Details of any events and services that you access through us, and feedback

from those events and services.

• Information from Ofsted about registered settings

We collect information about you in the following ways: Written and verbal communication

From yourself:

To enable us to provide services to you, it is necessary for us to use your personal information. To do so we will use the following legal basis for processing your information:

• Legal obligation: processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

• Public Task: processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

If there is any special category data, it would be processed under reasons of substantial public interest.

What is your personal information used for?

Information will be used for the following purposes:

• To support our statutory duty to ensure sufficient, sustainable early years and childcare places

• To enable us to provide support, training and development

• To enable us to provide you with funding and make payments

• To verify details of your OFSTED registration and inspection

• For submission of the annual early year’s census to DfE

• Sharing information through the Family Information Service (with your

consent)

• To safeguard adults and children

• To support children in relation to SEND

Will your personal information be shared?

Sharing information may be required for us to meet our statutory duties or to provide you with relevant support.

Anyone who receives information from us is also under a legal duty to only use the information for the purposes agreed and keep the information secure and confidential.

How long will we keep your personal information?

After we deliver a service to you, we must keep your information as a business record of what was delivered. The type of service you receive will determine how long we have to keep your information.

Our corporate retention guidelines show how long we keep information for different services.