The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are focussed on protecting you and how your data is handled, and here at Central Bedfordshire Council we want to keep you in the picture as to how we do that.
When applying for assistance you will be asked to give us some information about your household, such as contact details and financial circumstances.
We are doing this as a public task in the public interest.
We will only use this information to administer your application for the Household Support Grant and to protect against fraudulent claims. Some level of information may also be provided to Government to demonstrate how funding has been delivered.
We will safely share this information with other teams at Central Bedfordshire Council and other people or organisations where it is necessary to administer your Household Support Grant. To issue you with a voucher we will need to share your name, email address and telephone number with our voucher fulfilment partner eVouchers.com
For the prevention, detection and enforcement of fraudulent acts this information may be shared with other relevant teams within the Council, and other bodies administering public funds or involved in the prevention, detection, and enforcement of criminal acts.
We will ask these organisations and individuals to keep this data safe.
We will keep this information safe on our own Council systems.
We will keep this information no longer than we need to.
Further details on how information is managed at Central Bedfordshire Council can be found on the Council’s Data Protection webpage.
Please note that only one application per household can be made for this assistance, and that details of any applicants who cannot be verified as eligible will be forwarded to the Council’s Fraud Team for further investigation.
Declaration
I declare that my household lives within Central Bedfordshire and that to the best of my/our knowledge the information I/we have given on this form is true, correct and complete, and that this is the only application for this assistance that my household has made.
- I/We understand if I/We have knowingly given false information that I/We may be prosecuted.
- I/We authorise Central Bedfordshire Council to make any enquiries it considers necessary to check the information given on this form and to protect against fraud, including accessing data held on systems held by the Council and the Department for Work and Pensions.
- I/We consent to my/our information being shared in accordance with the GDPR statement above.