All of our customers have access to the DPE Knowledge Bank which has a Best Practice Checklist area.  Each checklist is designed to help you walk through all aspects of data protection.
The checklist will give you an insight about where your organisation is with data protection from a data privacy and technical security perspective. The checklists form part of the Best Practice library which includes contextualised guidance, documents and resources on specific areas of data processing.  The checklists form part of the ICO Accountability Framework which helps organisations with their governance and corporate risk management where it relates to data protection.    The checklists cover all aspects of the framework, enabling you to assess against organisation baselines:

1. Leadership & Oversight
2. Risk Management (DPIA's)
3. Policies & Procedures
4. Individual Rights
5. Contracts & Data Sharing
6. Transparency
7. Training & Awareness
8. Records Management
9. Monitoring Verification & Reporting (Data Breaches, SARs and FOI's)
10. Response & Enforcement (SARs and FOI's)

FOI

The FOI checklist asks the essential questions around getting a Freedom of Information Policy in place. It links to the FOI Best Practice Area which includes a template policy, publication scheme, support around responding to a request and a response template. The example and advice section gives support on FOI's that we have seen made with a number of our customers.

If you need further help and advice with an FOI then email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and someone from our core DPO team can give you specific guidance on the request you have received.


Answer a sample FOI checklist question:

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DPE customers can get started on completing the FOI checklist here: