We now associate SDQs with your AccountID and UserID. This information, if combined with date of birth (removed 1 March 2017) and your ID (removed 5 March 2017), have become powerful personal identifiers. We believe this might violate generic data protection principles. It is for the protection of data subjects (children, young people and informants), data controllers (you) and the data processor (us) that we have removed these identifiers.

For access to the SDQs that we hold on your behalf, you should retain our IID (the 16 digit number on menu and reports) and associate it in your records with the child's identity. Once you do this, new features like Export will become more useful to you as well as allowing you to fulfil your data protection obligations more easily.

For linking SDQs with identity, you should consider employing SDQplus. SDQplus provides a permanent ID (PlusIID) for all SDQs done and a data protection safe means of linking it to your identity/demographics for the young person. This also provides longitudinal/historical SDQ assessments and allows emailable assessments to the informants, saving large amounts of transcription work on your part.

Professor M F Smith, working with Professor Robert Goodman, inventor of the SDQ

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