Data protection and information sharing in education

You will hold many types of personal information about your staff, your pupils and third parties with whom you engage. Understanding your duties and obligations is essential to avoid breaches, harmful publicity and penalties.

Our expert team has extensive experience of providing practical, pragmatic advice on a wide range of information law issues and also offers data protection audits and on-site training tailored to your particular needs and to make sure that any data sharing complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998. Whether you are looking for support in relation to how best to protect against data loss, storing and processing personal information, data subject access, freedom of information requests or on any other information sharing and data protection issue, our team has a wealth of practical experience and knowledge to offer you.

We provide:

• Data Protection Act 1998 – advice on all aspects of compliance with the DPA, including agreements for data processing, sharing and storage including cloud computing.
• Policies and procedures – including advice on website terms and conditions of use, privacy notices and cookies policies.
• European regulations – we draft and review contractual, licensing and services agreements to ensure compliance with European data protection regulation.
• Auditing – we offer a range of training and audit services, supporting education providers with developing their arrangements for data protection, privacy and data breaches.
• Freedom of Information – we provide advice on dealing with subject access and freedom of information requests.
• Training and seminars – we provide a wide range of bespoke training, on-site and at our offices, on data-protection, information and cyber security.