General privacy notice
Equipment and adaptations
We will use the information you give us to provide you with the service(s) you need and meet our contractual and legal responsibilities for assessing your application for equipment and adaptations.
We will ask you to provide us with your name, address, date of birth, gender, emergency contact details, GP contact details, medical conditions, additional support needs, religious needs, and ethnicity, employment information, financial information 9income, benefits, expenses), criminal convictions as well as information about your family circumstances. We need this information to make sure the assessment takes account of all your circumstances.
As well as assessing your application we will use your information to:
- assess your social care needs
- protect vulnerable children, young people and adults
- manage funding of services
- support auditing and monitoring to do with regulatory duties
- create statistical reports research
- improve service delivery
Sometimes we have to use personal information to protect individuals from harm or injury, to help prevent and detect crime, to comply with legal orders, and to provide information because of a person's rights. We will only process personal information when it is lawful to do so.
Information sharing
We may share your information with the following when necessary:
- NHS
- Police Scotland
- Department of Work & Pensions
- Scottish Fire & Rescue
- Care Inspectorate
- Scottish Ambulance Service
- Education Services
- Office of the Public Guardian
- Children’s Panel
- Mental Welfare Commission
- Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
- Scottish Courts
- housing providers
- other council departments
- Social Security Scotland
Your rights
You have the right to ask us to:
- tell you that we are using personal information about you, tell you what that information is and who we have shared it with. You can also ask us for a copy of the information we have about you. This is called the right of access.
- correct any wrong or misleading personal information that we have about you. This is called the right to rectification.
- stop using any or all of your personal information. This is called the right to object.
- delete or destroy your personal information under certain circumstances. This is called the right to erasure.
- stop using your personal information until we can correct your personal information, give you our reasons for using your personal information or stop us deleting your personal data if you need it in connection with any legal claims. This is called the right of restriction.
- pass your personal information to someone else under certain circumstances. This is called the right to data portability.
For more information on how we use and handle your information and rights and how to exercise them or how to make a complaint you can ask for a copy of the council’s explanation from our Data Protection officer by emailing dp@southlanarkshire.gov.uk or see our general privacy notice.
- General privacy notice
- Adult and older people's services
- Anti-social behaviour
- Council employees bank mandate
- Blue Badges
- Bulk uplifts
- Business property enquiry
- Carer support
- Civica eStore
- Clothing grants/free school meals
- Comments and complaints
- Council invoices
- Crisis/Community Care Grants
- Customer Services
- Education Maintenance Allowance
- Equipment and adaptations
- Housing allocations
- Fostering and adoption
- Non-domestic rates
- Pass Plus
- Photography and filming permission
- Pupil registration and enrolment
- Recruitment criminal convictions check
- Recruitment health check
- School placing requests
- School transport
- SLLC employee bank mandate
- SLLC recruitment criminal convictions check
- SLLC recruitment health checks
- Social Work assessment
- Unpaid work
- Waste Services
- Council Tax/Council Tax reduction
- Housing benefit/Discretionary Housing Payments
- Non-Domestic rates
- Factoring and buildings insurance
- Change of details agent/landlord/solicitor/owner
- Council tenant change of name
- Common repairs
- HomeImprove
- Third party insurance claims
- Land and property
- Online rent account
- Tenant participation
- Permission to alter or sublet council property/operate a business
- Rent/factoring/lock-up Direct Debit
- Care of Gardens
- Bereavement Services
- Excellence in customer services
- Landlord forum
- Coronavirus Business Support Fund
- School hub application
- Planning pre-application enquiry
- Self-employed Hardship Fund
- Modern Apprenticeship Quarterly Review
- Coronavirus Business Support Fund - Tenant/Occupier Grant Fund
- Bed and Breakfast and Small Serviced Accommodation Provider Hardship Fund
- Early years exemption
- Debt/benefit advice enquiry
- Small Business Support Grant
- Town Centre Small Business PPE Grant
- Covid-19 business restrictions funds
- Kickstart Scheme
- Scottish Welfare fund
- Entering/leaving council facilities
- School registration
- Taxi and Private Hire Driver and Operator Support Fund
- Early Learning and Childcare application
- Access to free sanitary provision
- Annual HAVS Health Assessment Questionnaire
- Covid-19 Discretionary Fund
- Small Accommodation Providers paying Council Tax Fund
- UK Community Renewal Fund
- Community clean-up support
- Instrumental music tuition
- Community wellbeing helpline
- Scottish Milk and Healthy Snack Scheme
- Low Income Pandemic Payment
- Housing repairs
- Planning enforcement
- Supported Care enquiry
- Climate Emergency and Resilience Grant
- Food Strategy Fund Grant
- Allotments
- Road and skip permits
- Book a visit to Carluke waste and recycling centre
- Employees
- Criminal convictions - election polling staff
- Lived Experience Fund
- East Kilbride 75th anniversary grant application
- Platinum Jubilee Awards nomination
- Planning enquiries
- South Lanarkshire Works customer and employer enquiry
- Ideas letterbox
- South Lanarkshire heat project
- Money Matters Advice Service
- Building warrant search/copy documentation
- Bank/building society mandate for SLC salary payments
- Planning application search/copy of documentation
- Food business registration application
- Cost of living additional supports and Warm Welcome initiative community grants
- National Entitlement Card (NEC) privacy statement
- Building Standards enquiries
- Parking enquiry
- Wheeled bin and refuse sack assistance
- Community Wish List
- Property enquiry
- Planning applicants
- Community asset transfer expression of interest
- Seniors Together
- Social work enquiries
- Rough sleeping
- Electrical Vehicle Charge point application
- Request for access to information (FOI)
- Adopted roads enquiry
- Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Fund and Alternative Fuel Payment Fund
- Education general enquiries
- Early years enquiries
- Civil ceremony booking enquiry
- Social Enterprise Grant
- Participatory budgeting
- Report an empty property
- Micro Business Support Grant
- Pass plus application
- Electric vehicle charging enquiry
- Education benefits enquiries
- Licensing complaint
- Consumer and environmental complaints
- Copy birth, death, marriage and civil partnership certificates
- Civil marriage, partnership and other ceremonies
- Self-build register
- Employment at elections
- Local Place Plan register
- Matchmaker buyer registration
- Matchmaker seller registration
- Civil marriage, partnership and other ceremonies