Data Protection Officer

Provided by our sister company Judicium Education and endorsed by the NAHT, this service assists Catholic Schools, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) and Diocese in complying with the requirement to appoint a DPO with the responsibilities set out in Article 39 of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Advice & Guidance

A designated consultant to manage your account. He/she will be an expert in this area and inform and advise your school or Diocese, and your employees about the obligations that are required to comply with the GDPR and other data protection laws. This will be done by way of reports, information sheets and training.

Record Keeping

We will assist you to create and maintain comprehensive records of all the data processing activities carried out by the school or group, including the purpose of all activities, which must be made public upon request.

Policies & Procedures

We will assist you to devise and maintain policies and procedures to regulate your processing of personal data and set out how to interact with external bodies, regulatory authorities, data subjects and information seekers.

Staff Training

We will offer training to your employees on compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws. Training will be given in two workshops and online with our eLearning platform.

Annual Audits

In addition to providing regular updates, we will carry out an annual audit to provide an assessment of whether your school or Diocese is following good data protection practice. The audit will look at whether you are following your policies and procedures and make recommendations for improvements including any new guidance from the ICO.

Subject Access Requests

We will manage enquiries under data protection and freedom of information laws, in that we will manage the data collection process, as carried out by your employees under our direction, and draft the various correspondences with the data subjects and regulatory authorities.