So, you've been asked to be the data protection champion/lead in your organisation! We explain what that means for Data Protection Education customers.
Best Practice Update
The changes to the Academy Trust Handbook will be effective from 1st September 2025 and include some statutory digital standards recommendations.
📲👍It's Social Media day today - now an integral part of our daily lives both personally and at work. We take a look at some privacy considerations and acceptable use.
The DfE have issued guidance about how Ofsted looks at AI during inspection and regulation.
🤖 📢 The DfE has issued some training and guidance about the use of AI in Education. The guidance aims to help educators safely and effectively use AI to enhance the classroom experience and reduce teacher workload.
📳What's Up with WhatsApp? WhatsApp is a regular theme in relation to SARs, FOI's, data breaches and general use as tickets into our Knowledge Bank platform. Emma Martins, Chief Commissioner of the Data and Marketing Commission has worked with us to produce some guidance following the recent employment tribunal that was published in relation to a preschool.
The GOV.UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 is out and reveals that 43% of UK businesses and 30% of charities experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. We review and highlight some key data protection points.
🚫🔒 Sensitive data requires a higher level of security under UK GDPR because of its potential to cause significant harm to individuals if it is lost, stolen or misused. A recent case of a teacher losing their job after accessing a safeguarding report and transcribing it to her personal computer highlights the both the importance for least privilege access and continual review of access.
A group of 13 secondary schools, 69 primary schools and 61 nurseries in West Lothian have suffered a cyber attack.
⚖️🛡️ National Honesty Day, although one day to highlight the importance of honesty, it reminds us of how importance truth is in the realms of data protection and cyber security and how it should be part of an organisation's fundamental beliefs and ethos.
This article shares advice we have given to several customers who have received an FOI request from the BBC News about conducting research into the challenges of handling harmful sexual behaviour in schools.
📢📱 We've updated our Social Media Best Practice Area to include more information about marketing, including a new training course.
- New Governor Resources
- Does stress lead to more data breaches?
- World Backup Day
- Are teachers using AI? 83% say its a time-saver
- DfE Digital Standards - narrowing the digital divide
- Arbor AI - On By Default
- DfE Guidance: Choosing a new MIS
- Sharing photos on World Book Day: Privacy considerations
- HCRG Care Group data breach
- The Importance of AI literacy and training staff
- How to verify visitors the right way
- Short Guide to AI Video
- Safer Internet Day, Cyber Security & Data Protection
- The Cyber Resilience Championship
- The Multiple Dimensions of Supplier Due Diligence
- School shares sensitive pupil information as part of an FOI response
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) Best Practice Area & Policy
- Blacon High School Cyber Attack
- WhatsApp and FOI's: ICO Warnings
- New AI Guidance from the DfE
- What the proposed Government legislative proposal around cyber crime means
- ICO report on AI tools in recruitment
- DfE update to record keeping and management
- Update to data sharing for school immunisation programmes
- Early Years Settings and Cyber Security
- SLT Digital Lead Profile
- The role of governors in cyber security and data protection
- Contracts Register
- DfE Digital Standards Autumn Update
- The importance of knowing how to access your CCTV footage!
- Cyber Attack on a Special School
- Stealing children's data
- What is dark data? (and why does it matter?)
- Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
- Searching for data when you receive a Subject Access Request
- Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
- Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
- Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
- Join Our Social Media Family!
- School hit by Cyber Attack
- Cyber Security Best Practice Area
- DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
- New Policies, Documents, Letters and Posters page
- Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
- The DPE Retention Schedule
- Making the Rounds Update (now includes reporting)
- ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
- ICO Reprimands a School
- Navigating Privacy at the End of Term , Special Occasions and End of Year
- Out of date technology
- Data Retention and the Pupil File
- Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
- Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Cyber attack on a school during half term
- Update to the DfE Digital Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges (May 2024)
- The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
- ICO: Learning from the mistakes of others report
- Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
- School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
- DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
- Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
- FOI Requests generated by Artificial Intelligence
- Social Media Best Practice Area
- Lettings Best Practice Area
- Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions
- MFA Bombing - What is it?
- Protecting your Social Media Accounts
- Why we recommend using checklists
- Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
- Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
- Product Focus on Checklists : Information and Cyber Security
- Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
- Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
- Product Focus on Checklists : Record of Processing
- Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
- Why Data Should Stay Put: Benefits of Keeping Data in Its Original System
- Product Focus on Checklists : Data Retention and Destruction
- Product Focus on Checklists : Data Migration
- Product Focus on Checklists : Biometrics
- Product Focus on Checklists : Supplier Due Diligence
- Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
- The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
- Product Focus on Checklists : FOI
- Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
- Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA
- Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
- Product Focus on Checklists : Data Breaches
- Product Focus on Checklists : Subject Access Requests
- Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
- Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
- Cyber Attack on a School
- Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
- Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps
- Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
- Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
- Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
- Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
- Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
- Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
- Free cyber training for staff
- DfE Digital Standards Update
- The Mother of all Breaches
- International Data Transfers (part 1): Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers: Understanding EU SCCs, UK Addendum, and UK IDTA
- ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
- Where is your data stored?
- IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
- If you suspect a financial scam .....
- School Focus: St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | Brighton
- Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
- Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
- Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
- Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
- Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
- Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
- Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
- New Resources for Schools from the ICO
- Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
- Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
- Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
- Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
- Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
- Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
- Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
- Guardians of Privacy: 1. Social media, privacy and children
- The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
- KCSIE: Filtering, Monitoring and Privacy
- Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
- Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
- Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
- Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
- Records Management Best Practice Update
- Governors and Data Best Practice Area Update
- What do I need to redact?
- Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
- Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
- Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
- Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
- Public bodies and sensitive data
- Get a DPE Badge for your website!
- ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
- Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
- Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
- How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
- Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
- Where's Harry the Hacker?
- The ICO Reprimands a school
- Redaction Guidelines Updated
- Using WhatsApp in Schools
- How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
- FOI: Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete
- FOI: Henry Jackson Society
- FOI: Vaccination Justifications
- How the Record of Processing Can Help You
- What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
- Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
- Email and retention periods
- How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
- Sharing this year’s Nativity play online
- B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
- Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
- Class Dojo International Data Sharing
- Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
- Transparency
- Parents and students covertly recording conversations
- SAR? ER? FOI?
- Research projects and GDPR
- Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
- Emergency contacts and consent
- Key elements of a successful DPIA
- FOI Publication Schemes
- Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
- New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
- When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
- National child measurement programme
- Make sure DPE is your registered DPO with the ICO
- Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
- Acceptable Use Policy
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