About SICAP
We, South Dublin County Partnership, receive funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development, with co-funding from the European Social Fund as part of the Programme for Employability,
Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020, to deliver the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme 2018 - 2022 (SICAP).
SICAP is a national programme which works with people to improve their outcomes in life. Pobal works with the Department of Rural and Community Development to help design and oversee the programme.
SICAP funding requires us to collect information on the people we register and support so we know more about
them and the types of supports they need. We record when and how we helped you, for example, if you went on a course or received any grants. We store this information on the SICAP database IRIS, the Partnership database FOCUS and on paper forms. You give this information by filling out the IRIS Individual Beneficiary
Template.
The information you provide us with will be stored for seven years from when you leave SICAP in hard copy (paper forms) and on the computer databases.
The Data
The information we record about you is used for five main purposes:
1. To establish if you are eligible for the programme.
2. To review how we assisted you so we can provide you with the best possible tailored supports.
3. To share your contact and other relevant details with other service providers (e.g. ETB, Citizen Information
Centre, Local Employment Service) or appropriate employers, as agreed with you in your Personal Action
Plan, so we can make referrals and appointments on your behalf.
4. To produce statistics which will help us plan and improve our services; so we can provide our funders with
aggregated data to assist them in providing a better national service.
5. Your data may be reviewed from time to time as part of a programme audit.
Some of the information we require is personal data such as your name and address, your phone number, your economic status, gender and age band etc. We need this in order to be able to contact you, to deliver a tailored
service, and to know about the people who are engaging with SICAP. We will also be asking for your Personal Public Service Number (PPSN). This is voluntary and you do not have to provide it. The PPSN will help us and Pobal to track your progress over time, which will allow programme outcomes to be assessed.
We will be asking you for sensitive personal data. All sensitive data is voluntary and you do not have to provide this. Sensitive information is your nationality, ethnic/cultural background, new communities status and if you have a disability. It is asked because it gives us more detail on which people are using SICAP and the extent to which different groups are receiving supports, and so we can monitor equality of access.