The Council provides a broad range of services and functions, many of which require the processing of personal data.
Our overall Data Protection Policy Statement (PDF) sets out our approach to, and intention to, manage personal data we hold in a way that is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
For information about personal data obtained through the Council’s website please read Council’s statement on the use of ‘cookies’ here.
You can also view our privacy statements that apply to individual services and functions below. These statements explain your rights as data subjects under GDPR, and how you can exercise these rights.
All documents open in PDF format.
Adult social care and wellbeing
- Active Adults
- Adult Social Care Assessment
- Adults Request for a New or Amended Provider
- Adults Social Care General Enquiry Form
- Care Standards Monitoring Service - Quality Assurance Care Standards Form
- Care Standards Monitoring Service - Quality Assurance Report
- Carers Self Assessment
- Client Transport Authorisations (School and Adult)
- Direct Payment for Adult Health Care
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- External Approved S12 assessors and Best Interests Assessors
- Fitness and/or Sessional Activity Organisers / Land Hirers and Outdoor Events Applicants
- Multi Activity/Sport Disability Clubs
- Physical Activity Event or Festival
- Pre-paid Purchase Cards for Adult Social Care
- Request for a new Professional person and or Organisation to be added to Swift
Archives and Records
Bereavement and Memorial Services
Business and Commercial Services
- Activities associated with Trading Standards and the Local Weights and Measures Authority
- Bedford Markets
- BID Levies
- Community Asset Transfer (CAT)
- Engaging with Bedford Borough Council Commercial Property Tenants
- Equality and Diversity Audit of Town Deal Board
- External delegates booking a training course
- Maintenance of the Supplier List
- NNDR (Business Rates)
- UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Rural England Prosperity Fund Grants
Children, young people and education
- Administrative service for all school appeals
- Allocation of winter support grant
- Assessing the performance of our service in meeting defined needs of Troubled Families
- BLIS Strategy launch event registration
- Child Missing Education
- Childcare Request Form
- Children and Young People
- Client Transport Authorisations (school and adult)
- Collection of immigration data
- Education Welfare Service
- ECT survey for teachers in Bedford Borough
- Eligibility for Nursery Education Funding
- Family Hubs and Children's Centres
- For families to be able to refer into Early Help
- Fostering
- Free school meals
- Free school meals opt-out scheme
- Free school meals voucher provision outside of term time
- Governor services
- NHS Number Matching for Bedford Boroughs Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and or Disabilities
- NQT Quality of Care (for newly qualified teachers)
- Parental consent for Educational Psychology Assessments
- Registration of NQTs with the Borough as the Appropriate Body for Induction (newly qualified teachers)
- Research in respect of the care young people receive on behalf of children services
- Research purposes
- SEND Panel Information Sharing and Quality Assurance Process
- School Admissions
- School Transport
- Tracking and monitoring of young people
Community Centres
Community engagement and events
- Attending the Sports Village at the Bedford River Festival
- Communication with River Festival stakeholders
- Community Hub
- Event booking notice
- Fitness and/or Sessional Activity Organisers’ and Land Hirers and Outdoor Event Applicants
- Newsletters and Email Alerts
- To deliver the Safer Streets initiative in the Midland Road area
- Volunteers Enquiry Form
Council Tax, benefits and financial support
- BID Levies
- Council Tax
- Crisis and Home in the Community Grant Awards
- Discretionary Housing Payments
- Grants Awards
- Personal Budgeting Support (Universal Credit)
- Repayment of Home Energy (Boiler Replacement) Loan
Customer feedback and consultations
- Citizens Panel (Consultations)
- Collect Responses to Consultations
- Consultation on the Local Plan
- Consultations
- Customer Feedback
- Data Subject Access Request
- Data subject rights
- Freedom of Information Publication Scheme Feedback
- Household Recycling Centre Feedback
- Submit an FOI Enquiry
- Sustainable Travel Access to Rail Stations (STARS) feedback survey
Employment, recruitment and training
- Applicant Privacy Notice
- Assessing Pension Training Needs
- BTAC (Administration of Qualifications and Training Courses)
- Employee Privacy Notice
- Recruiting Member Representative for Local Pension Board
- Storing of client information at The Jobs Hub
- Work experience or volunteering placement
Health and Public Health
Highways and public rights of way
Housing and homelessness
- Allocation of Social Housing
- Crisis and Home in the Community Grant Awards
- Discretionary Housing Payments
- Homelessness Service
- Housing Benefits
- Prevention and Relief of Homelessness
- Responding to reports of empty properties
Internal audit and fraud
Legal, Governance and Democratic Services
Libraries, culture and heritage
- Corn Exchange - Visitor Information
- Corn Exchange - Volunteer Information
- Corn Exchange - Venue Hire
- Cultural Services Box Office
- Customer Comments, Complaints and Queries - Libraries
- Events Database - Libraries
- Library membership - online registration
- Requesting titles that are not in library stock
Licensing Services
- Animal Activity Licensing
- Charitable Collections and Society Lotteries
- DWA Licence
- Gambling Act 2005
- Personal Licences
- Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates
- Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Drivers Licence
- Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licences
- Private Hire Operator Licence
- Scrap Metal Dealers Licence
- Sex Shop and SEV Licence
- Street Trading and Highways Table and Chairs
- Temporary Events Notice
- Zoo Licensing
Parking Services
Payments
Planning and development
- Applying for details to be added to the Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Register
- Consultation on the Local Plan
- Keeping contact information on the Planning Policy database
- Planning Enforcement Investigations
- Response to Applicant Agent on Planning Enquiries
- Response to Applicant Agent on S106 Agreements
- Section 38, 278 and 33 agreement requests
Planning applications
Recreation and public space use
Transport and Travel
- Blue Badges
- Bus stop suspensions
- Client Transport Authorisations (School and Adult)
- Concessionary Travel Passes
- MOT Booking
- School Transport
- Sustainable Travel Access to Rail Stations (STARS) feedback survey
- Sustrans Business Walking Project
Travellers and site management
Waste, recycling and Environmental Services
- Apply for a Waste Permit
- Appointments / permits for Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Assisted Collections
- Bin or Sacks Request
- Commercial Clinical Waste Collection
- Domestic Clinical Waste Collection
- Bedford Borough Council CCTV System
- Body Worn Video - Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Complaint regarding Anti-Social Behaviour
- Emergency Assistance Centres
- Environmental Services Report
- Environmental Services Request
- Household Recycling Centre Feedback
- Missed Bin Collection
- Recycling and Waste General Enquiry
- Refuse and Recycling Report
- Trade Waste Recycling Collection Quotation Request
Other data controllers (shared services)
- Approved Premises (marriages and civil partnerships)
- ESOL learner course enrolment