I would put the onus on the landlord. You state you cannot disclose fairly and lawfully under the DPA unless you get consent. Leave it up to the landlord to provide you will any relevant exemptions if they think they have a right to the information.
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Stephen Cotterill
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Subject: [data-protection] Sharing Information with Landlords
Hi
Looking for a little advice around providing information to landlords.
Our organisation provides assistance to individuals with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health problems to live in their own rented properties in the community.
One individual we support who has a physical disability as been suffering with alcoholism in recent months and the landlord has asked for information from us about this. They have requested information relating to when and why the individual has been taken to hospital, his attendance to an alcohol support group and whether their drunkness has resulted in the individual being abusive to our staff.
The individual renting the property has full capacity to give consent to share this information however they are unlikely to do this as it may result in them losing their tenancy. There is no agreements between our organisation and the landlord with no information sharing taking place, everything is through the tenant.
Looking a the DPA I can't see any obligation for us to share this information with the Landlord without consent however i know nothing about Housing law and wondered if there was anything in the Housing Act or Landlord and Tenanct Act etc that says we should share the information without the tenants consent?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
Stu Ashton
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