Written questions

Kinship Care: Information Sharing

Commons · Question 12866 · 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 cross-government governance arrangements are in place to oversee data linkage involving the consistent identifier in Clause 5 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act and other public sector datasets.

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...