Housing First Multi Agency Panel

Redditch Borough Council collects personal information about you in order to fulfil their statutory duty in assessing homelessness and suitability to the Housing First Scheme or alternative accommodation.

The legal basis for this processing is a legal obligation to which the controller is subject. This information is required under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. This Duty has since been further clarified through Housing and Homelessness
legislation and statutory guidance. In particular the Homelessness Act 2002.  Processing is also necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request, prior to entering into a contract. 

Health information, is classed as ‘special category’ data, and is processed in accordance with Article 9(2)(h), health & social care purposes;  criminal record is also classed as special category data, and is processed in accordance with Article 10, ‘processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences’.

The data collected is:

• Name
• Contact details
• Date of birth
• Disability / vulnerability
• Next of kin / Power of Attorney / Authority to Act
• Employment details
• Financial details
• Family circumstances
• Convictions

Sometimes some of this information is provided by a third party referral, from Caring for Communities & People, the Baptist Church, Redditch Nightstop, NewStarts and County-wide Primary Care. 

The Council may share some of your information with other agencies and support services who will be able to help with your individual needs.   These include:

• Redditch Council Housing Services
• The Rough Sleeper Co-ordinator
• Redditch Nightstop
• NewStarts Furniture Project
• Cranstoun, Worcestershire, Redditch
• Department for Work & Pensions

Your information will be destroyed 6 years from withdrawal or cancellation.

This information will not be shared/sold to any other service/organisation unless we have a duty to do so under law. This data will not be transferred outside of the EEA.

No decisions around this data are made by automated means.  Details of Redditch Borough Council’s full privacy notice can be found here.