The one with the unintentional rent write-off

Think you could be a dispute adjudicator?

Take a seat at the adjudicator's desk and test your decision-making skills with our new "Be the adjudicator" case study.

'Shona' will take you through a recent decision an adjudicator had to solve.

Do you know about the services we offer?

We want to make protecting your deposits as simple as possible. Here's three simple ways we could make things easier for you:

• You can submit multiple deposits in one go, reducing your admin.
• We can repay multiple deposits at the same time in one quick and simple process.
• Have you used our Prescribed Information template? Simply click "Print prescribed information" when you submit a deposit online to download a document detailing all the information you need to provide to your tenants.

Cuppa catch-up with Daren King!

Get to know our team!

We start with Daren King, our Head of Tenancy Deposit Protection, who kindly takes five minutes out of his day to answer a few questions for our blog.

Can you guess which family sitcom his pub featured on?

Latest Charity awards

Each quarter we give up to £20,000 to charities working in the housing sector in Scotland, England and Wales through The DPS Charity Awards Fund, which we share with our sister company in England and Wales, The DPS.

We're delighted to announce the successful applicants of our Q4 2014 awards are Aylesbury Homeless Action Group and Wycombe Rent Deposit Guarentee Scheme! Each charity has been donated £10,000 which will be used to provide loans to cover tenancy deposits or rent money to prevent homelessness.

Do you know a charity working in the housing sector? Tell them to apply before 30 June 2015 for a chance to receive funding.