Data Protection for DSLs

The DfE’s Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance states that Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) are required to ‘act as a source of support, advice and expertise for all staff’

Annex C of the KCSIE outlines that one of the roles of schools DSLs is to ‘understand relevant data protection legislation and regulations, especially the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation’. This vital session will cover recording concerns, retaining records, transferring records, securing records, sharing information and responding to requests for records to ensure DSLs have a working knowledge of compliant safeguarding records management.