Find out how Westminster City Council Adult Social Care collects and uses personal information about you or your carer. Adult Social Care aims to help residents stay independent and safe in the community for as long as possible and to improve their well-being.
We do this by working with a number of agencies in the public, private and voluntary sector to organise the appropriate level of care. Working with a range of agencies means we can personalise the care and support you receive, and offer you flexibility, choice, and control. Westminster City Council Adult Social Care service collects and processes personal information about you. The council is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act This privacy notice broadly explains what information we collect, the purpose for processing it, and the types of personal information and who we may share it with.
It applies to all personal information collected for or on behalf of the council whether by letter, email, face-to-face, telephone, online or any other method. By processing we mean the organisation, retrieval, consultation, use and deletion or destruction of information and its disclosure to other agencies necessary for tasks to be carried out in the public interest or for the provision of health or social care services.
Your personal information is only used for a specified purpose s but if we intend to use it for any other new purposes we will normally ask you first.
In some cases the Council may wish to use your information in an anonymised form which does not identify you for another purpose such as improving and developing services. We will only share information where it is appropriate and legal to do so. We may also share information, for example, if there is a risk of serious harm or threat to life, for the prevention and detection of fraud or crime, assessment of any tax or duty or if we are required to do so by any court or law. Where this is necessary, we are required to comply with all aspects of the data protection laws.
