How we use your information
As part of the ‘ACHSCP Carer’s Strategy (2023-26)’ we are required to facilitate the creation of an ‘Unpaid Carers Reference Group’. The first stage involves engaging with people who are unpaid carers and inviting them to join the Carers Reference Group.
Where you have indicated you are interested we will ask you to provide your name and either an email address or a contact telephone number or your address if you would prefer postal correspondence.
Your contact details will then be used to contact and invite you to our regular meetings, engagement events and relevant meetings within Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership. Our meetings and events are used to discuss people’s experiences of providing unpaid Care and to hear from relevant guest speakers. There will also be future opportunities to influence reviews/ updates to the Carers Strategy for Aberdeen City.
These meetings and engagement events will be both in-person (in small groups, held in accessible community meeting spaces) and online, using the Microsoft Teams platform. There will also be opportunities to share your views anonymously, by completing a questionnaire online.
Your views and comments will be used to influence the development of any future strategies and services for unpaid Carers. Individuals will not be identified in the Strategy or associated reports.
We will also ask questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing voluntary information you help us monitor the statistical data to ensure the ACHSCP is interacting in a balanced way with groups of people with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
At any stage, you can decide to withdraw your interest by using the following contact details:
- Email: ACHSCPengagement@aberdeencity.gov.uk
- Phone: 01224 067039
If you do so, we will remove your contact details from our records.
How long we keep your information
Responses will be kept until we complete the analysis that will inform the development of any future strategies and services for unpaid Carers. Thereafter we will keep statistical data beyond this point, but you will not be identifiable from this information. We will retain your contact details as long as the Group is in place, and you have not withdrawn your interest.
Your Rights
You have rights in relation to your data, including the right to ask for a copy of it. See more information about all the rights you have, how they work in practice as well as contact details for the Council’s Data Protection Officer. You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think we have not handled your data properly.
Our Legal Basis
Aberdeen City Council (the Council) is the Data Controller for this information. Wherever the Council processes your data, we need to make sure we have a legal basis for doing so in data protection law.
The Council understands our legal basis for this processing is that it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of the official authority vested in the Council. This is because enabling participation in decisions and processes which are aimed at improving outcomes is part of our public task under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
In doing so the Council is likely to process special categories of personal data, should you choose to provide equality and diversity information. The Council’s legal basis for doing so is that it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.