Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: What schools and academy trusts need to know
30 September 2025
Online
After a lengthy legislative journey, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 has finally made it onto statute books, and it makes some important changes that will impact schools and academy trusts.
In this webinar, your expert Data Protection team of Beth Paliga, Claire Archibald and Dai Durbridge will talk you through the changes and set out what you need to do now. Key topics will include:
- The impact on subject access requests, and a 'reasonable and proportionate search'.
- Changes to police requests for personal data.
- Understanding the new principle of 'recognised legitimate interest'.
- The impact of the new formal right to complain to data controllers.
Find out what it means, what you need to do, and how we can help you with pragmatic and sensible changes to your work.
Who should attend?
This session is open to all and free to attend. It will be of particular interest to Data Protection Officers and Data Leads working in education settings.
By attending this session, you’ll gain:
- A good understanding of how the legislative changes will affect your daily work.
- Insights on how and when the new legislation will come into effect.
- Practical tips and advice, opportunities to access further support and resources.
- Advice on your next steps.
Our in-person and online events are designed exclusively for clients and targets. As such, we reserve the right to cancel bookings. If you’d like to speak to a member of the team regarding your attendance, please contact us.
Contact
Dai Durbridge
Partner
dai.durbridge@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)330 045 2105
Contact Dai
Our speakers
Dai Durbridge
Partner
Claire Archibald
Legal Director
Bethany Paliga
Senior Associate
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