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Explains how to make sure people can find your data and how to maintain it.
Explains how to carry out an audit to check what personal data your school holds. You can use a data retention schedule to document how long you'll keep different types of data for.
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act ensures that critical capabilities to fight crime and protect the public are maintained. It clarifies existing law without extending current powers.
How to make sure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
Use data more effectively by improving your technology, infrastructure and processes.
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
How to choose data tools and infrastructure that are flexible, scalable, sustainable and secure.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
Guidance for participants in the Family Resources Survey (FRS), an annual study of the income and living condition of people living in the UK.
The CMA’s policy on how records are managed, retained and disposed of.
These principles describe how the government should manage legacy technology.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
This Privacy Notice explains who is processing your data, the personal data we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and what your legal rights are.
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
Explains your rights over your data and how the regulator processes and protects your personal information in line with data protection legislation.
Additional information about open data and where you can find extra guidance and support.
Information held by the Teaching Regulation Agency on teachers, trainee teachers and those who have previously taught.
Use a reference architecture to develop a public sector organisation’s technology and how it shares data across government.
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