Educational settings handle increasing volumes of personal information – on pupils, their families and relations, and staff. This personal information is increasing in sensitivity: medical information; allegations of bullying and safeguarding concerns will contain sensitivity personal data of pupils and …
Category Archives: Guidance
Data Sharing – getting it right
Categories: Data Sharing, Guidance, TransparencySharing personal information can be essential to deliver services – especially when working with partner agencies. Yet data sharing can be a difficult and confusing issue. There have been many high profile cases where the lack of data sharing led …
Temporary Staff – is Data Protection Training on the Agenda?
Categories: Breach, Fines, GDPR, GuidanceThe recent data protection breaches made by temporary staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital highlighted the risks posed by not providing adequate data protection training to temporary staff. Responsibility for providing the training If the temporary staff are employed by …
3 step crash course in data protection compliance
Categories: Guidance, ICOThere are many aspects to ensure compliance with the data protection act. Here are Protecture’s three steps to getting you started on the path to compliance. 1. Notify with the Information Commissioner’s Office If you handle personal information, you have …
5 steps to happy homeworking
Categories: Charities, GuidanceHere are Protecture’s 5 steps to happy homeworking: 1. Undertake a Privacy Impact Assessment Be clear about what type, volume and sensitivity of personal information you hold, where it is currently stored and how it is currently accessed. Consider the potential …
Bullying: the data protection implications
Categories: Academies, Charities, GuidanceA survey finds bullying is parents’ big fear as children start secondary school – but what are the data protection implications of bullying? An article on Sunday, 20 October 2013 highlighted that the prospect of their child being bullied as …
New guidance on Confidentiality in Health and Social Care
Categories: Care Homes, GuidanceThe Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) have published new guidance on confidentiality in health and social care. This guidance is for health and social care bodies and ‘anyone working with them to provide services or care’ who provide ‘publicly …