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What to do if Your School Suffer a Data Breach
Data Breach: What to do if your school suffers a data breach: Our growing reliance on technology has been compounded and increased by the coronavirus pandemic . From working remotely, to communicating with family, to test and trace apps, to...
What Schools Must do to Tackle Ransomware Crisis
What schools must do to tackle ransomware crisis! Cyber criminals are increasingly using ransomware to attack the education sector. The trend is most noticeable in the US, with criminals locking up school’s systems and demanding a payment to...
Support for UK Education Sector After Growth in Cyber Attacks
The NCSC has updated an alert following the increase in ransomware attacks against the education sector National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides additional support for education establishments following rise in ransomware attacks since late...
Electronic vs. Paper copies
Should you keep both electronic and paper records of some important data? In light of the ever increasing number of cyber attacks on the education sector, and the advice given by the NCSC, we at DPO For Education continue to advise our clients to...
Appointing a Data Protection Officer
A simple guide to understand the role of a DPO in schools and who is and who is not suitable for the role. Whatever the size and setting of your school, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places high expectations on you to protect the...
GDPR DOs & DONT’S Infographic
Training and Awareness is a way to inform your staff that data protection is everyone’s responsibility and that small steps to protect data can make a big difference. Print this poster to display in the staff room and offices. Poster: GDPR - Data...
How to help your teen have GOOD mental health
Helping your teens with their mental health What is mental health? Unfortunately, mental health is still rarely talked about in a positive sense. Just as we ALL have physical health, we also ALL have mental health. Being mentally healthy means...
How to Help your Teen Through Exam Result Uncertainty
Helping your Teen through exam result uncertainty. It is less than easy for teens at the moment. All their lives they have been told that their exam results at GCSE and A-level will determine their future and now they are not sitting these exams at...
Subject Access Requests- A Common Misconception.
Subject Access Request (SAR) Last week I spoke to a new client and asked if they had ever had any problems in responding to a Subject Access Request. (SAR) To my surprise they told me that they had never had one. I was very surprised by this as...