The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 gives everyone a right of access to information held by scottish public authorities.
Under Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Designation of Persons as Scottish Public Authorities) Order 2019, Registered Social Landlords such as Eildon Housing Association, have been designated as a public authority to whom the terms of the Act apply. This takes effect from 11 November 2019.
The aim of the Act is to increase openness and transparency by allowing people to access information about how decisions are taken and how public services are delivered.
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (the Act) requires Scottish public authorities to adopt and maintain a publication scheme which has the approval of the Scottish Information Commissioner, and publish information in accordance with that scheme.
Authorities are under a legal obligation to:
Requests must be made in a recordable format.
You have the right to request environmental information. Requests can be made under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs) and they work in a similar way to Freedom of Information requests.
Read more about the charging schedule for Environmental Information Regulations.
We have adopted the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Model Publication Scheme 2018.
This scheme sets out our commitment to making certain classes of information routinely available, such as policies and procedures, minutes of meetings, annual reports and financial information.
We have developed a Guide to Information for this purpose which also contains details of the environmental information that we routinely make available. You can also view the classes of information below.
You can make a request for information by contacting our Data Protection & Information Officer on:
Email: InfoRequests@Eildon.org.uk
Postal: Data Protection & Information Officer, The Weaving Shed, Dunsdale Road, Selkirk,
TD7 5EB
If you are unhappy with our decision, or with the way we have dealt with your request, you can ask us to review our decision. If you do not agree with the outcome of this review, you can ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to investigate.
Information about us; who we are; where to find us; how to contact us; how we are managed and our external relations,
Description of who we are:
Location and Opening Arrangements – https://www.eildon.org.uk/contact-us/
Information relating to Freedom of Information:
About our Governing Body
About our Staff
Governance Documents and Corporate Policies
Relationship with Regulators
Group Details
This includes information about our work, our strategy and policies for delivering services and information for our service users.
How to use our services
Policies & Procedures
Internal Procedures relating to any of the above policies are available on request.
Information about the decisions we take, how we make decisions and how we involve others.
Board Meetings
Consultation and Participation
Information about our strategy for, and management of financial resources (in sufficient detail to explain how we plan to spend public money, and what has been spent)
Information about our accounts and budgets – https://www.eildon.org.uk/about-us/annual-accounts-reports/
Spending Relating to Staff and Board
Information about how we manage our human, physical and information resources
Human Resources
Information Resources
Physical Resources
Development Brochures
Information about how we procure works, goods and services and our contracts with external providers
Our Contractors and Suppliers
Our Procurement
Information about how we perform as an organisation, and how well we deliver our functions and services can be found on our annual reports page
How we are performing
Information packaged and made available for sale on a commercial basis and sold at market value a retail outlet e.g. bookshop, museum or research journal
This class does not apply to us as we do not produce any publications for sale
Open data made available by us under the Scottish Governments Open Data Resource Pack and made available under open licence.
This class does not apply to us as we do not produce any publications for sale.
