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17 September - Report offers school data protection advice
A report released today aims to help schools ensure they are handling pupils’ personal information in-line with the law. ...
17 September - ICO blog: Audit improvements proving successful
When I blogged in January, I talked about how we had made some big changes to how we deliver our data protection audit programme ...
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