NCVO: Data protection essentials (2 days)

This essentials course is suitable for anyone within an organisation that handles the personal data of staff, service users, beneficiaries, volunteers, customers, members or supporters, and needs to know the basics of data protection for voluntary organisations.

By the end of the training, you'll: 

• understand the principles of data processing and how your organisation is expected to comply with them
• know about the lawful bases for processing, as well as the extra conditions for processing special category data
• understand subject rights, subject access requests, data breaches and how to deal with them
• know the difference between data controllers and data processors, and what needs to be in place when sharing data with other organisations
• know about recent changes to the legislation or what's coming up in the future.