GDPR Support for Schools

The Sentry System

Compliance management in one place

The Sentry System has been designed to make the task of managing compliance easier. It does this by providing step by step forms to record incidents, log SARs and document your data mapping and even deliver awareness training to staff. Every school can get benefit from these time saving modules.

The system is designed to allow many users to contribute to a task. This means that the job doesn’t have to fall onto one persons’ shoulders. Allow experts in the different parts of the school to manage the recording of data protection for their area.

If you use an external data protection officer, the system can be set up to alert them when a breach or a subject access request is logged. The new restricted access feature means that if the information in a record is especially sensitive it can be kept confidential.

With simple workflows, documentation and support, the Sentry system makes GDPR easier.

DPO & Helpdesk Services

The right sort of help

Let’s face it, we all need a bit of help sometimes and managing GDPR is no exception. The pressure on each member of is constant and only seems to be growing. For an individual to take on the role of data protection officer takes substantial commitment of time and effort. We can help to lighten the load.

GDPR Sentry can become part of your data protection compliance team and fit in with how you want to manage your school. We can be available directly to staff when they need support or we can work closely with a data protection lead from your team.

You can find out more on our DPO services pages, or get in touch to arrange a conversation with one of our senior consultants.

Auditing Services

More than box ticking

Simply putting the measure to become compliant can take a major slice of time. Understanding how well those measure are performing is often a step too far. When is comes to a full review there is a level of data protection expertise required to spot the non-compliances.

Our auditors are highly experienced in looking for issues and are independent of any organisation problems. We frequently identify non compliances that have been overlooked because we are not immersed in the way that school operates.

The audit is also a great time to get some immediate advice about improvements and we positively welcome questions during the course of the visit. We are more focused on practice, but we will want to review your documentation too.

Training Courses

Relevant Content

As well as everyone in school having basic awareness of their responsibilities there are also smaller groups of people who need more detailed information. We offer training course that are school specific and packed with real examples of both good and bad practice.

The training is mindful of the demands on peoples’ time. We can come to you and training can be delivered in half day sessions or in twilight sessions.

For those who use the Sentry system the practical training sessions also provide excellent guidance in how to get the best from it for your school.

Project Support

Clearly Defined Tasks

In and among the day to day tasks of managing GDPR compliance there some that can take a huge amount of resource. If you have a major system development you’ll need to undertake a data protection impact assessment, or you may be trying to figure out how to reduce the frequency of breaches.

We can provide expert support for these type of projects. People who have experience in education, in data protection and in school systems.  We’ll scope a project out and then agree a schedule for delivery.