Cheers everyone for your help - the issue has now been resolved.
Dor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 26 February 2003 14:13
> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Supporting People
>
> In a message dated 26/02/2003 13:52:05 GMT Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>
>
> Has there been any further progress by any of you on this one? I am
> being
> advised by my SP counter-part that I should be sending out consent
> forms and
> making a decision but I still believe there is no legislation to
> determine
> this and am certainly not being forced to commit a breach of the
> Act. Our
> Housing Benefit team who SP want the information from are not happy
> as that
> would divulge all Housing Benefit claimants (and not just specific
> people
> for the purposes of SP).
>
>
>
> -------
> Assuming there is no legal obligation for claimants to take up SP,
> disclosing or processing the data for that purpose would need positive
> consent, in my view. Why not have a poster up in the claims office that
> tells people of SP services? You might even get away with HB sending out
> a leaflet in the next letter that goes out to all recipients, telling them
> that SP is available, but to disclose all the claimants' details would
> almost certainly be excessive, incompatible with the original purpose and
> difficult to justify under Schedules 2 and 3.
>
> Ian B
>
>
> Ian Buckland
> Managing Director
> Keep IT Legal Ltd
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