Purpose for processing
The scheme processes personal information in order to provide the Blue Badge Scheme directly or jointly with partners and commissioned private and third sector providers.
This includes:
- processing Blue Badge applications for applicants who meet the following criteria:
- receive the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- receive eight points or more for the 'moving around' part of the mobility component of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- are registered as severely sight impaired (blind) under the National Assistance Act 1948 (partially sighted people do not automatically qualify) or if you have a Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI) indicating you are severely sight impaired
- receive a War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement
- receive Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) award, tariffs one to eight and have been assessed by the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) as having a permanent and substantial disability that causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty walking
- have a permanent and substantial disability which affects your mobility and means you have considerable difficulty in walking
- have a child under three years old and need to transport bulky medical equipment for urgent treatment, or always be near a vehicle so they can be treated or driven to a place for treatment for a permanent illness
- drive a vehicle regularly and have a severe disability in both arms and have considerable difficulty working parking meters
- are an organisation that cares for and transports groups of disabled people who would qualify for a Blue Badge in their own right
- information and advice, assessment and review services
- the use of contact details to ask if you would like to provide feedback or take part in local or national surveys about social care
- the prevention of fraud and misuse of Blue Badges