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Video: GDPR Guidance for Schools

Posted by: Iain Bradley, Posted on: 23 March 2018 - Categories: Data protection and management
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Iain Bradley from the DfE explains how schools can review and improve your handling of personal data.

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Twelve steps to take now, or twelve steps to take then?

Posted by: Iain Bradley, Posted on: 12 March 2018 - Categories: Data protection and management

...of personal data, special category data, data audit, lawful basis and conditions for processing, data retention, privacy notice, subject access request, data protection impact assessments and data breach. You’re going...

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GDPR Readiness: Focus on Catering

Posted by: David Allsop, Posted on: 12 March 2018 - Categories: Data protection and management

Mapping our data landscape is the key step to ensure that the other aspects of GDPR we are focussing on are built upon solid foundations. As May 2018 and GDPR coming into effect draw ever closer, we are using it …

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Talking with Staff on GDPR

Posted by: Cathy Rowland, Posted on: 12 March 2018 - Categories: Data protection and management

...data. Our early staff engagement focussed on three key areas. Raise awareness We talked about how the data world has changed in the 20 years since the Data Protection Act...

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General Data Protection Regulation: Evolution or Revolution for Schools?

Posted by: Iain Bradley, Posted on: 24 October 2017 - Categories: Data protection and management
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Like the DfE, many schools are increasingly talking about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - the beefing up of data protection, which will be written into law in May 2018.

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