Please see our full Privacy Notice
Updated: 22 February 2023
Reviewed: 22 February 2023
The reasons we use your data
- to issue crisis payments
- to refer to relevant housing related support services
- to assist with discharges from hospital
- to support the PREVENT strategy
- to record religious or racial crimes
- to carry out our safeguarding duties
- to provide housing advice and assistance (Housing Register)
- to assist with Child Death Reviews
- to assist with Serious Case Reviews
- to undertake the councils roles and responsibilities under the governments Home For Ukraine sponsorship scheme
- administration of First Homes
Why we are allowed to use your data
We process personal information to comply with our Legal Obligation, as part of our Public tasks, as part of a contact we have entered into or because you have provided your consent for certain processing.
Legal obligations or public task under various UK laws including but not limited to:
- Allocation of Housing (Qualification Criteria for Right to Move) (England) Regulations 2015/967
- Care Act 2014
- Care Standards Act 2000
- Children Act 2004
- Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015
- Family Law Act 1996
- Homelessness Act 2003
- Homelessness reduction act 2017
- Domestic Abuse Act 2021
- Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2012/2601
- Housing Act 1985
- Housing Act 1996
- Housing Associations Act 1985
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
- Localism Act 2011
- Modern Slavery Act 2015
- National Assistance Act 1948
- Public Health (Amendment) Act 1907
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
- Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006
- Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- Town and County Plannng Act 1990
We process special category data for the following reasons:
- Homelessness Prevention, Statutory Homelessness, Referrals to Housing Related Support – Public Task. UK GDPR - Public Interest 9(2)(g), Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 1 Part 2(6)(1)
- Housing and Hospital Development Officers case work – UK GDPR – Explicit Consent Art 9(2)(a)
Who we can share your data with
- government departments
- health agencies
- registered providers
- internal departments
- landlords
- medical services
- other local authorities
- police
When computers make any decisions about you
Not applicable
When your data gets sent to other countries
Not applicable
How long do we keep your personal information?
We keep information for a set period of time which is often set out in law and we try to include all of these in our Retention and Disposal Schedule which lists how long we hold your information. This can range from months for some records to decades for more sensitive records.
Please see our full Privacy Notice