Coronavirus (COVID-19) privacy notices

Leeds City Council and selected health and care providers are the data controllers for this processing.

Leeds City Council (LCC) is the data controller for the information being processed.

On 28 September 2020, a legal duty to self-isolate came into force for people who have tested positive for Covid-19 or who have been told to self-isolate by NHS test and trace.

This privacy notice is to make it easier to understand and provide you with more information about how Leeds City Council in partnership with Voluntary Action Leeds (Doing Good Leeds) may seek to collect and hold information about you in relation to the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In order to support people who are shielding, a support payment scheme has been introduced under which a one-off payment of up to £500 will be available for eligible shielding individuals.

The Health Protection team, Leeds City Council, receive anonymised data on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases from a variety of sources including schools, care homes, workplaces, and the Government (see below for full details). The purpose of receiving and using this data is for surveillance, monitoring and reporting of COVID-19 and infectious diseases, to support with proactive outbreak management and the notifying local health protection system. Whilst the Council will always attempt to ensure that personal data received is anonymized, however, in some cases this will not be possible (for example, due to the size of a business being sufficiently small to enable individuals identified).