National Advisory Service (NAS) support for international social care workers: privacy notice

Through Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, the National Advisory Service (support@sanctuary.gov.wales)will process your personal data to provide support and assistance to international social care workers who have been or are due to be displaced as a result of a revocation of their employer’s sponsorship licence or who are seeking alternative employment. Personal data from social care employers wanting to utilise the service will also be processed.

Welsh Government will be the controller for the personal data, and we will process it in line with our public task and the official authority vested in us to develop and manage essential support services for international social care workers, who hold a valid visa to work in the UK, who have been or are due to be displaced as a result of a revocation of their employer’s sponsorship licence or seeking alternative employment.

Personal data relating to social care workers will not be shared with third parties. We will share information provided by employers including the name of the social care employer or provider, type of service, service address, contact details for the relevant officer and their current vacancies with third parties, including with social care workers and UK Government (Regional Support Hubs in England). Data will only be shared to support and assist oversea workers in finding alternative employment.

All personal data provided will be stored on secure servers. 

Your personal data will be retained for the duration of the support service, and for a period of at least 6 months thereafter. The data will be securely destroyed once it is determined that it is no longer required.

Your rights

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights. These are in relation to the personal information you provide us or that we hold on you. Specifically, you have the right:

• to access a copy of your own data
• for us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
• to object to or restrict processing (in certain circumstances)
• for your data to be ‘erased’ (in certain circumstances)
• to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection

The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are:

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone: 01625 545 725 or 0303 123 1113
Information Commissioner’s Office website

Further information

You may have further questions about how we will use the data provided, or wish to use your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. If so, you can contact the Welsh Government’s Data Protection Officer at:

Welsh Government
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
Email: DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales