Services for adults explained

By law, anyone who works for Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council must keep information about you confidential. We will not gather more information than we need to be able to provide you with the support you require.  

To make sure you get the best possible support we may need to share some information about you with other people. We will discuss and agree with you which other health and social care professions, or services we will need to share your information with. Anyone who receives information from us must keep it confidential by law.  

We will only pass on your information to others, without your consent, where there is a safeguarding concern about you or others or where required to by law.  

You have a right to see your care records. The Data Protection Act allows you to have access to the information we have about you. There are circumstances where access to your record might be limited, for example if it was felt to be in your best interest or for the protection of others.  

If you wish to see your care record we need a written request from you.

View the data protection and access to information section.