Tenant Rights Uk

According to laws introduced in 2007, it is expected of your landlord to place your tenancy deposit into a secure scheme.

Landlords have an obligation to pay deposits received from tenants into a deposit protection scheme.
The law states that every landlord who takes a deposit from a tenant has to protect that deposit by lodging it with one of 3 tenancy deposit protection schemes

The basis for this requirement is to stop Landlords utilising a Tenants deposit monies as income elsewhere and to make it easier to obtain the return of your deposit when a Tenancy comes to an end.