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The probation service shares information with an increasing number of different agencies, who can provide specialist services for offenders. Apart from the statutory exchanges with courts, police, local authorities etc we do a lot of work with the voluntary sector, providing alcohol, drug, education and similar services. We also have to deal with private sector companies like private prisons or Group 4 for monitoring curfews. Then there are the software companies who provide our HR and finance software and the scanning company who scan old files. I haven't been involved with the national arrangements for prisons and Group 4 , but the rest are all local and all have an information sharing agreement

Hilary Lawrenson, Data Protection Officer
National Probation Service - South Yorkshire
Head Office, 45 Division Street, Sheffield, S1 4GE

Tel 0114 276 6911    Fax 0114 276 1967


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[data-protection] Information Sharing Code of Practice





You may remember that I was interested in this code and its application to the private sector.  It's taken a while for my enquiry to get to the top of the UKIC's pile, but here is the answer they sent me earlier today:

BEGINS:
One of the main motivations for the creation of the Code of Practice was to address the increase in data sharing which is currently taking place by bodies in the public sector.  However, it was also recognised that the sharing of personal information is becoming an ever increasing part of private sector activity. With this in mind, the Code of Practice has been purposely written so that it can be used by both public and private sector bodies to establish their own personal information sharing procedures.
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The question I have for us all is "Under what circumstances would we envisage data being shared by the private sector with other organisations, either private or public?
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