- James England
- Best Practice Updates
FOI: Henry Jackson Society
My name is Charlotte Littlewood, and I am a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
- Do you have any current pupils of South Asian descent? (Yes/No)
- James England
- Best Practice Updates
FOI: Vaccination Justifications
You may have received an email or letter requesting information on the research and justification of the administration of vaccines, such as:
Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: SCHOOL VACCINE POLICY.
In relation to UK Government COVID-19 'Vaccine' Policy and Childhood Immunization ‘Vaccine’ Policy which includes INFLUENZA, HPV, MEASLES AND POLIO, under the protection of the People's Union of Britain, you are hereby served notice of conditional acceptance that you are lawfully entitled to 'vaccinate' children, whilst in the care of the headteacher at the school, whether on school premises or elsewhere, provided you deliver to me the following:
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
How the Record of Processing Can Help You
The Record of Processing can often seem like a daunting process to undertake- but it’s important to view it as exactly that- a process. Documenting the processes your organisation carries out is an ongoing project that you continue to evolve and develop as those processes change. The value you can get out of spending some time and care by completing various ones shouldn’t be underestimated. We’ve spoken to some of the people who have used the RoP tool on the Knowledge Bank, and asked them what they found challenging, and what they found the most useful parts of the tool, in the hope that it will help some of you who may feel that carrying out the Record of Processing is a daunting task.
Under UK GDPR, Public Authorities or Bodies, as well as businesses carrying out certain processes are required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). This article will explain why you need a DPO and what a DPO does for your organisation.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
At Data Protection Education, we have an ongoing project to assess potential organisations that our schools are either currently contracted with to supply a product or service, or may in the future be in contract with.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
For most organisations, a lot of thought and care goes into ensuring that when you’re collecting data, you are complying with the relevant data protection legislation- that it’s being collected with consent where required, that you have a lawful basis etc. However,
Schools in Brighton and Hove have received the following Freedom of Information request:
1. Please send me copies/scans/digital files that record individual racist/religious incidents/bullying incidents in terms of numbers of incidents and their
- Stuart Lee
- Best Practice Updates
Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
These protocols aim to ensure that online lessons with pupils when working from home, are safe, secure and continue to provide high-quality education using a virtual platform.
This is guidance for setting up and managing online lessons using the school’s chosen platform ie Zoom; Google or Microsoft teams.
- James England
- Best Practice Updates
Class Dojo International Data Sharing
Users of Class Dojo will recently have noticed that a requirement to provide consent for international data transfers was included to the login screen.
It is a requirement under the Freedom of Information Act and ICO to set out your commitment to making certain classes of information routinely available, such as policies and procedures, minutes of meetings, annual reports and financial information.
- James England
- Best Practice Updates
Transparency
What Is Transparency
Transparency is about being clear, open and honest with your users about what they can expect from you.
- James England
- Best Practice Updates
Research projects and GDPR
Research projects have quite a bit of leeway in GDPR - and whereas GDPR tightened a lot of things up from the old data protection directive, it actually frees up a lot relating to research.