Information will be shared with local authorities, the DCSF and othergovernment agencies. Local authorities will be able to see thequalifications of all staff to plan and budget for training. GillianGaskell, project co-ordinator in early years at CWDC, said it would'assist settings and local authorities in capturing workforce dataeffectively, rather than using it as a method to determine funding.Local authorities may choose to view the audit tool to check theprogress in staff qualifications in different settings. This may providepart of the evidence-base for incentivising quality but this will be attheir discretion and must comply with the requirements of the singlefunding formula.
'Local authorities may choose to incentivise settings to enter data, butsettings are under no legal obligation to do so.'
Ms Gaskell said the CWDC needed to ask questions about ethnicity anddisability to understand the impact of its work on different sections ofthe workforce. Personal information would be processed in accordancewith the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
'We will only use the information provided for the purposes that thesetting manager has agreed to, or for other lawful disclosed purposes.Those entering the information must gain consent of all employees andvolunteers for it to be shared,' she said.
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