An increasing number of schools are incurring unplanned costs, both direct and indirect, because of the increase in basic, and easily avoidable, data protection incidents and poorly managed school communications. This is combined with the increasing awareness of data subject of their right to bring a claim [on average in the order of £5,000 per claimant], directly against a school, leading to considerable potential risk to a school.

This briefing will help you understand the changing risk to your school and employ some basic strategies and resources to help mitigate them and protect your school against unplanned costs.

Monday, 27th January 2025, 5.30pm-6.15pm

Duration: 45 minutes online

Key subjects covered:

➢ common mistakes made while processing personal data in schools;

➢ compensation claims – the new PPI?;

➢ understanding the psychology and reducing the impact and costs of subject access requests

on your school

Materials

All attendees will receive a full copy of the slide deck, presenter notes and a link to the Data Protection in Schools Toolkit, following the session.

The session will be delivered remotely using Zoom.  A link to the meeting will be sent out in advance.

Who is this course for?

Senior Leaders and Governors

Meet the facilitator

Darren Rose CIPP/E

Darren spent over 10 years in education as a compliance advisor for Data Protection, SEND and Ofsted which allowed him to understand the issues faced by education, whilst understanding the statutory requirements and issues faced by schools.

In 2017 the opportunity arose for Darren to step back from full time employment, and instead, pursue a dream to become a freelance data protection officer and independent data protection consultant & trainer.

Since 2017, Darren has provided training, support and consultancy to over 2,000 schools of all types and settings including academies, maintained and independents schools, from nursery through to Sixth form.

Darren is passionate about supporting schools in the challenges that they face from the new data protections laws and specialises in providing resource led training and support, focused specifically on a school’s challenges, and needs.

Darren is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and holds the industry recognised Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) qualification from the IAPP.