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An Introduction to Data Protection

Handle pupils' and colleagues' personal data with confidence, and know what to do the moment something goes wrong.

  • 39 minutes
  • 10 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Tell personal data apart from special category and criminal offence data
  • Choose a lawful basis for using data, and know when consent isn't it
  • Check the right things before sharing pupil information with another organisation
  • Recognise a data breach and report it to your data protection officer
  • Respond to a request to see, correct or delete someone's data

About this course

Everyone in a school handles personal data, whether it's the register or a child's medical notes. Most of the time it's routine. Then someone asks if they can share allergy details with another school before a joint trip, or an attachment goes to the wrong person, and nobody's quite sure what the rules are.

This course explains UK GDPR in plain English, with school examples. You'll learn what counts as personal and special category data, when you can lawfully use or share it, and why asking for consent isn't always the right basis. You'll also know how to spot a data breach and who to tell, and how to handle a parent asking to see or delete what you hold.

It comes with eight practical tips for keeping data secure, and a PowerPoint if you want to run the session for colleagues.

  • For early career teachers, governors and 7 other roles. All phases.

10 modules

Open in order

  1. An Introduction to Effective Data Protection

    1 question

    4 min

  2. What Counts as Personal Data

    2 min

  3. The Key Principles of Data Protection

    1 question

    8 min

  4. What’s the Difference Between Personal Data and Special Category Data?

    1 question

    4 min

  5. When Can We Process Personal Data Lawfully?

    1 question

    8 min

  6. When Can We Process Special Category and Criminal Conviction Data Lawfully?

    1 question

    6 min

  7. When Can We Share Data?

    1 question

    3 min

  8. How to Identify, Report and Prevent a Data Breach

    1 question

    6 min

  9. Receiving and Responding to an Information Rights Request

    1 question

    2 min

  10. Wrap Up

    1 min