A monetary penalty for pounds 90,000 has been served to Telford and Wrekin Council for two serious breaches of the seventh data protection principle. A Social Worker sent a core assessment report to the child’s sibling instead of the mother. The assessment contained confidential and highly sensitive personal data. Whilst investigating the first incident, a second incident was reported to the ICO involving the inappropriate disclosure of foster carer names and addresses to the children’s mother. Both children had to be re-homed.
[2012] UKICO 2012-15
Bailii
England and Wales
Updated: 30 August 2021; Ref: scu.529584