We collect your information when you request support from Early Help via Children’s Centre, or register to become a member of your local children’s centre.
We may also gather information about your family through telephone contact with you or face to face in a meeting with you. If another service is contacting the Early Help via Children’s Centres on your behalf, then they may share your details with us by secure email.
If you already receive support from a service and it is felt you would benefit from receiving support from further services, your information could be shared with several services to get coordinated support for you and your family. You will be notified if your information is being shared in this manner, and it will be your decision whether you wish to accept the additional services being offered.
If you have completed a membership form and have agreed to be contacted, then your children’s centre may email you with information on the services that are available.
If you have filled out the signing in form to record attendance we will upload the provided information to our data recording system (Early Help Module – Group Work), for future contact and to support our reporting of the number of adult, children and young people using our service.
As mentioned above, it is our duty to collect this information to monitor how children’s centres and Early Help services are working to meet the needs of parents/carers who have children aged 0-19 years (25 for young people with SEND).