1. Please provide any Data Sharing Agreement(s) made with regards to Prevent and/or Channel.
2. Please provide any Data Protection Impact Assessment done in relation to these Data Sharing Agreement(s).
3. Please provide any Data Processing Contract(s) relevant to the Data Sharing Agreement(s).
4. Please provide a list of partners without Data Sharing Agreement(s) that you have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with for the purposes of Prevent and/or Channel implementation.
In response to the above questions the information requested is exempt under Section 24 – National Security and Section 31 – Law Enforcement. This is on the grounds that:
- *As part of wider CT efforts the Government employs a range of programmes to safeguard susceptible individuals and the public. The nature of these programmes means that there is sometimes limited information about them in the public domain. Data protection documents contain detailed descriptions of the purposes for which information is being stored and used. Disclosing detailed operational information about certain intervention programmes, including information contained in data protection documents, would provide detailed information on how they operate and could undermine their effectiveness.
- This information could be used by individuals or groups to devise counter strategies to these programmes, weakening their effectiveness and expose susceptible individuals to a greater risk of being drawn into terrorism. If more people are drawn into terrorism this would increase the national security threat to the UK. There is a serious terrorism threat to the United Kingdom and the Information Commissioner recognises that terrorists are highly motivated and will go to great lengths to achieve their goals.
- Some local authorities may see fit to disclose this information, but the fact that other public authorities choose to disclose this information does not set a precedent for every public authority to do the same. Each request and response must be considered individually, and the risks identified by the Council in this case do not change simply because another Council has taken a different approach.
5. Please provide any information given to persons, or the guardians of said persons, referred to Prevent and/or Channel, including any Privacy Notice.
Please refer to the Channel Consent Form, the factsheet for friends and family, the Home Office Channel Privacy notice and the Privacy notice for Devon Channel Panel – Devon County Council.
6. Is the Data Sharing Agreement derived from the template Data Sharing Agreement found on the Police CTNet?
We do not hold this information as we do not have access to CtNet.
7. Are any data relevant to Prevent and/or Channel shared outside of Data Sharing Agreements, such as via Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub emails being copied in to Police?
Data Sharing Agreements cover all aspects of data sharing
8. Do invitees to Channel or Police-Led Partnership Panels have to sign Data Sharing or Confidentiality Agreements?
Yes
9. If yes, please release a copy of this agreement.
Please refer to the confidentiality agreement for Channel.
10. s any data relevant to Prevent stored outside of the Prevent Case Management Database or Channel Management Information System?
Yes.
11. If yes, please list these databases.
Devon County Council’s Prevent and Channel information is securely stored within our SharePoint secure site. Any data shared on email is shared with partners signed up to secure email connection and is sent via the Egress secure email system.
12. Is your area a Prevent priority area?
No
13. Is your area a Dovetail area?
No
14. Please list all the persons consulted on the decision to release the above information (only position and organisation)
There were 3 people consulted on this decision, all of whom work for Devon County Council. To provide their job role may identify the individuals involved. This would risk a disclosure of their personal information and would be a breach of the first data protection principle. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.