Your critical friend: one-to-one mentoring, supervision, and professional development for your school’s Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Acting as a DPO in an academy trust or school can be a lonely role. Shouldering the burden of subject access requests, dealing with breaches and demands to ‘approve’ new school plans leaves DPOs feeling on the back foot. With little chance for strategic oversight, data protection becomes a reactive, rather than proactive responsibility.
In response to this, we’re proud to offer our bespoke service: Empower DPO. With a focus on enhancing skills through a mix of coaching, supervision, and strategy development, our senior data protection experts act as a critical friend for your DPO.
With a balance of professional development and tailored support to deliver your school or trust objectives, Empower DPO is designed to build confidence, ability and expertise. Your DPO will be supported to balance reactive firefighting with the need to proactively plan, build and deliver a longer-term data protection strategy.
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Outcomes
This service will enable clients to achieve:
- DPO professional development.
- Reassurance for trust boards.
- An efficiency in DPO workload - from reactive to proactive.
- Organisational confidence and independence, reducing the need for expensive outsourced solutions.
How it works
- Initial Consultation: to understand the needs and challenges of your DPO and your school/trust, and identify areas of improvement for your current data protection practices
- Recommendations Report: tailored advice and recommendations to empower your DPO to develop a realistic 12-month action plan
- Review and Finalise: agree and finalise an action plan, including priorities and objectives, with clarity on how success will be measured
- Termly Review Meetings: Three 90-minute sessions to track progress, discuss and overcome barriers and agree next steps
Cost
The cost for your 12-month Empower programme is £3,995 plus VAT.
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Dai Durbridge
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