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Gloucestershire CC apologises over data breech
Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has apologised to 14 vulnerable adults whose personal details were published online.
The data was posted on a procurement website, revealing details such as health conditions and social care needs. Staff had attached personal ‘pen pictures’ of adults requiring such urgent help to notices available to the public on the supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk portal, dating from the start of 2017. The local authority maintained it had ‘done everything we can’ to remove the online material.
An investigation into the breech is currently underway.
The council uses online procurement portals to post notices when urgent residential or non-residential care was needed for people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities or mental health needs.
Pete Bungard, the council's chief executive, has ‘sincerely apologised’ for the error, and assured staff had already been retrained while an internal investigation was carried out.
A spokeswoman for the authority said GCC had ‘worked with the procurement websites and search engines’ and added she was ‘confident the council has done everything it can to remove the information’.
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