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Kinship Care: Databases

Commons · Question 12865 · Tabled 24 Jun 2026 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 3 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the consistent identifier provisions in Clause 5 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act on NHS identifiers and other health-related datase

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 3 Jul 2026

The department is not required to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) because personal data will be processed locally. Should this change, the department will conduct and publish a DPIA.To date, pilot data has been processed locally. The n...