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Get to grips with your role
- 'Cheat sheet' for DPOs
Print this to help you remember the key GDPR principles, deadlines and definitions
- DPOs: what your school must do for you
Your school must help you carry out your role. Here’s what you need from them
- The role of the DPO
Read this for an in-depth explanation of your duties and the training you might need
Get your staff up to speed
- GDPR cheat sheet, and posters for your staff room and school office
Share our 'cheat sheet' with them, and display these posters around your school to help everyone remember the dos and don’ts
- 1-minute GDPR explainer
Share this ready-made, one-page summary with your colleagues
Updates from our DPO network and the latest guidance
- Data protection: latest updates
All the updates you need in one place, so you don’t miss anything
- Poll results: how is the DPO role taking shape?
See how your school compares on the time needed to carry out the role, and DPO pay
Dealing with subject access requests
- Subject access requests: guidance and template forms
Read the rules, and use our template forms to help you respond - How to respond to subject access requests in the summer holidays
Find practical solutions to this issue, and a template letter to extend the deadline for 'complex' requests - Template record for recording information requests
Use our template record for managing the different types of data requests people can make
Essential templates, model documents and guidance
- Conduct a data purge: decision flowchart
Use our decision flowchart to help you clean out your filing cabinets and decide what data to keep, minimise, or destroy - Personal data breach procedure and poster
Download our model procedure for use in the event of a data breach at your school, and put up the poster to help staff know what to do - Your role in data protection impact assessments
Get clarity on where you should be involved, with a DPIA template and checklist to help you
- The Key's guide to consent (with template consent forms)
Use our process to work out whether you need to seek consent. If you do, use our template forms for the most likely situations for schools
- Data protection model policy
Download our GDPR-compliant model data protection policy and adapt it to your school's setting
- Information audit: template
Use our downloadable audit template, which includes school-specific prompts, to help you identify what personal data you hold
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Pupil mental health: deepening understanding
Are you looking to deepen your staff's understanding of mental health, including anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation? Safeguarding Training Centre has the resources you need.
Evidence-led training courses that make it easy to upskill staff, anytime, anywhere.
CPD Toolkit is the most effective way to virtually deliver evidence-led training and support the professional development of your staff. Downloadable courses and online 5-minute summaries provide flexibility for training, whether staff are participating as skeleton staff in-school, via video call or individually at their own pace.
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