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The Government has provided some guidance on the avoidance of disinformation online.

https://sharechecklist.gov.uk/

What is disinformation?

Disinformation is the deliberate creation or dissemination of false and/or manipulated information

In light of recent ICO reprimands to schools it is important schools remember best practice for managing photos. The formal legal warnings issued by the ICO recently to schools both related to the processing of photos where no consent had been given. 

We've just published two new drip-feeds for printing off a circulating to staff on recognising and responding to subject access requests.

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) can provide support in many areas but are you aware of what we do help with?

There are some more well-known areas of data protection that we would be called upon to advise such as subject access requests and breaches but DPO’s don’t only provide advice and support when things go wrong,

Updated operational guidance has been produced by Public Health England for local commissioners and schools on running the national child measurement programme (NCMP)

Please ensure that you register DPE as your DPO with the Information Commissioner's Office. To do so:

To add a Data Protection Officer (DPO) email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject line ‘Add a DPO’ and include:

We've released version 1 of the Compliance Manager tool.

What is it?
The Compliance Manager allows you to assign any document to staff and enable the following interactions

I have read and understood I have used this in practice

or

I have given consent

Any standard document type can be uploaded and interactions selected. Then select the users to assign the document too and a date by which the users should have responded.

From the Information Commissioner's Office blog:

A former headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked.

 By changing the culture of email use within an organisation will not only benefit the organisation towards GDPR compliance and beyond, it will also save a significant amount of time by reducing staff workload and hopefully support staff wellbeing too.