The “Data Protection Act 1998” places a responsibility on all companies, who keep personal data on computers and /or hard copy, to adopt the data protection principles as outlined in the act, and to provide data subjects, service users, support workers and staff with access to personal information relating to them.

Security:

Information held on computer is password controlled. Only authorised staff of SCS Care services ltd are allowed access. All information held on computer relating to staff and support workers are backed-up on a daily basis: hard documents are held in lockable cabinets.

Permission for disclosure:

I understand that as SCS Care services ltd employee, I may be contacted or interviewed by social services or CQC Inspectors for carrying out routine inspections as required under the National Care Standards, for this purpose I consent to my personal file being disclosed.

I DO /I DO NOT consent to my file details being disclosed to any other third party, except for reference purposes without my prior permission.