DPIA for Dementia care and Missing person cases
Date of request: 5 November 2025
Reference: 11677842
Request
In relation to Dementia safeguarding scheme to reduce missing person cases | College of Policing, please provide any data protection assessment or data sharing documents around this please or any documents outlining the legal basis for sharing the data.
Response
Please see attached a copy of the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) screening form completed in relation to the Dementia Safeguarding Scheme. As explained within the document, the purpose of the DPIA Screening is to assess whether a project or proposal is likely to result in a risk to individuals and whether a DPIA will therefore be required. You will note from Section 4 that this screening form has been completed with a full DPIA not considered necessary (further explanation can be found within the form).
Within the document, names have been redacted under the following exemption:
- Section 40(2) – Personal Information.
Section 40 is a class based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case.
Any information to which a request relates is exempt if it constitutes personal data and would contravene any of the data protection principles. Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified directly from the information, or identifiable indirectly in combination with other available information.
To disclose the information would identify individuals, which would breach principle 1 (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) of the Data Protection Act 2018.
This serves as a partial refusal notice under section 17(1) of the FOI Act.