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Best Practice Updates

📲💬 We come across many organisations using WhatsApp as a communication tool with staff regularly and have previously highlighted some of the risks.  The ICO have recently published information about a case where WhatsApp messages had to be included in a Freedom of Information Request.

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Best Practice Updates

👩🏽‍🏫👨🏽‍💻 Since we have been talking to schools and multi academy trusts about the SLT digital lead, there have been a lot of questions about who that should be in the organisation. There’s often an assumption that it should automatically be the IT Manager, technician, or Data Protection Lead.  In this article, we explore the profile of an effective SLT Digital Lead and their critical role in shaping digital strategy, integrating technology into teaching and learning, ensuring business continuity, strengthening cybersecurity, and optimising administrative processes.

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  3. DfE Digital Standards Autumn Update
  4. The importance of knowing how to access your CCTV footage!
  5. Cyber Attack on a Special School
  6. Stealing children's data
  7. What is dark data? (and why does it matter?)
  8. Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
  9. Searching for data when you receive a Subject Access Request
  10. Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
  11. Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
  12. Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
  13. Join Our Social Media Family!
  14. School hit by Cyber Attack
  15. Cyber Security Best Practice Area
  16. DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
  17. New Policies, Documents, Letters and Posters page
  18. Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
  19. The DPE Retention Schedule
  20. ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
  21. ICO Reprimands a School
  22. Out of date technology
  23. Data Retention and the Pupil File
  24. Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
  25. Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  26. Cyber attack on a school during half term
  27. The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
  28. ICO: Learning from the mistakes of others report
  29. Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
  30. School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
  31. DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
  32. Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
  33. FOI Requests generated by Artificial Intelligence
  34. Social Media Best Practice Area
  35. Lettings Best Practice Area
  36. MFA Bombing - What is it?
  37. Protecting your Social Media Accounts
  38. Checklists - Are They Your Most Powerful Compliance Tool?
  39. Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
  40. Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
  41. Product Focus on Checklists : Information and Cyber Security
  42. Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
  43. Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
  44. Product Focus on Checklists : Record of Processing
  45. Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
  46. Why Data Should Stay Put: Benefits of Keeping Data in Its Original System
  47. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Retention and Destruction
  48. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Migration
  49. Product Focus on Checklists : Biometrics
  50. Product Focus on Checklists : Supplier Due Diligence
  51. Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
  52. The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
  53. Product Focus on Checklists : FOI
  54. Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
  55. Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA
  56. Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
  57. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Breaches
  58. Product Focus on Checklists : Subject Access Requests
  59. Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
  60. Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
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  62. Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
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  64. Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
  65. Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
  66. Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
  67. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  68. Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
  69. Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
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  71. DfE Digital Standards Update
  72. The Mother of all Breaches
  73. International Data Transfers (part 1): Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers: Understanding EU SCCs, UK Addendum, and UK IDTA
  74. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  75. Where is your data stored?
  76. IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
  77. If you suspect a financial scam .....
  78. School Focus: St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | Brighton
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  80. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  81. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  82. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  83. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  84. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  85. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  86. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  87. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  88. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  89. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  90. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  91. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  92. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  93. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  94. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  95. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  96. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  97. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  98. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  99. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  100. Records Management Best Practice Update
  101. What do I need to redact?
  102. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  103. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  104. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  105. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  106. Public bodies and sensitive data
  107. Get a DPE Badge for your website!
  108. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  109. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  110. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  111. How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
  112. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  113. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  114. The ICO Reprimands a school
  115. Redaction Guidelines Updated
  116. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  117. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
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  120. FOI: Vaccination Justifications
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  124. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
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  135. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
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