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  • The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now

    The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now

    17 Aug 2026 10:00 am
    Online (Live)
    From £449 plus VAT

    This interactive workshop will examine all the main provisions of the UK GDPR in detail as well as related legislation such as the Data Protection Act 2018. It will help you understand the practical steps which need to be implemented to ensure GDPR compliance. It will enable you to design a compliance action plan that meets regulatory requirements and builds customers' confidence in your organisation.

  • Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now

    Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now

    17 Aug 2026 10:00 am
    Online (Live)
    From £449 plus VAT

    This practical workshop will examine the concept of accountability in detail. Delegates will learn how to use accountability to plan and execute successful data protection audits to support organisational improvement in line with the requirements of UK data protection law.

  • Data Ethics - Act Now

    Data Ethics - Act Now

    18 Aug 2026 10:00 am
    Online (Live)
    From £449 plus VAT

    This workshop will explore what the term 'Data Ethics' actually means, the role it plays in the use of personal data (and indeed other data) and what practical steps information professionals can take to embed and promote data ethics within their organisations.

  • AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre

    AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre

    20 Aug 2026
    Online (Live)
    £1550 + VAT

    Aligned with the AIGP certification program, AI Governance Professional Training is for professionals tasked with implementing AI governance and risk management in their organizations. It provides baseline knowledge and strategies for responding to complex risks associated with the evolving AI landscape.

  • AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now

    AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now

    20 Aug 2026 10:00 am
    Online (Live)
    From £449 plus VAT

    In this workshop, we delve into the evolving realms of 'AI' and 'Machine Learning,' exploring their integration into both public and private sectors. Emphasis is placed on addressing contemporary challenges, with a focus on GDPR and other information governance and records management issues. Participants will leave with practical strategies for approaching Machine Learning and AI, heightened awareness of key resources, and insights into current best practices, ensuring they stay abreast of this rapidly advancing field.

  • FOI: Contracts and Commercial Confidentiality - Act Now

    FOI: Contracts and Commercial Confidentiality - Act Now

    21 Aug 2026 10:00 am
    Online (Live)
    From £449 plus VAT

    This workshop provides a detailed examination of relevant exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations and considers when these exemptions may be engaged.

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The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now
17 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
Price: From £449 plus VAT
Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now
17 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
Price: From £449 plus VAT
Data Ethics - Act Now Data Ethics - Act Now
18 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Governance | Data Protection
Online (Live)
Price: From £449 plus VAT
AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre
20 Aug 2026
Governance | Artificial Intelligence
Online (Live)
Price: £1550 + VAT
AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now
20 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence | Governance
Online (Live)
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FOI: Contracts and Commercial Confidentiality - Act Now FOI: Contracts and Commercial Confidentiality - Act Now
21 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Freedom of Information
Online (Live)
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Environmental Information Regulations - Act Now Environmental Information Regulations - Act Now
24 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence | Freedom of Information
Online (Live)
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How to Handle a Subject Access Request - Act Now How to Handle a Subject Access Request - Act Now
26 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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EIR Exceptions - Act Now EIR Exceptions - Act Now
27 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Freedom of Information
Online (Live)
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The New Data (Use and Access) Act - Act Now The New Data (Use and Access) Act - Act Now
27 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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Working with Childrens Data - Act Now Working with Childrens Data - Act Now
31 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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Intermediate Certificate in GDPR Practice - Act Now Intermediate Certificate in GDPR Practice - Act Now
01 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
Price: From £2199 plus VAT
FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
02 Sep 2026 9:30 am
Artificial Intelligence
Online (Live)
Price: From £2199 plus VAT
FOI Intermediate Certificate - Act Now FOI Intermediate Certificate - Act Now
02 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Freedom of Information
Online (Live)
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UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
03 Sep 2026 9:30 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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How to do a Data Protection Impact Assessment - Act Now How to do a Data Protection Impact Assessment - Act Now
07 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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Training: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection Training: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
08 Sep 2026
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now
08 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Governance
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How to Share Personal Data - Act Now How to Share Personal Data - Act Now
08 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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Cyber Security for DPOs - Act Now Cyber Security for DPOs - Act Now
09 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Security
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Law Enforcement Data Processing and Part 3 of the DPA 2018 - Act Now Law Enforcement Data Processing and Part 3 of the DPA 2018 - Act Now
10 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
15 Sep 2026 9:30 am
Artificial Intelligence | Governance
Online (Live)
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Risk Management in IG - Act Now Risk Management in IG - Act Now
15 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Governance
Online (Live)
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How to be a Data Protection Officer - Act Now How to be a Data Protection Officer - Act Now
16 Sep 2026
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre
17 Sep 2026
Governance | Artificial Intelligence
Online (Live)
Price: £1550 + VAT
FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
17 Sep 2026 9:30 am
Artificial Intelligence
Online (Live)
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AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now
17 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence | Governance
Online (Live)
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How to Increase Cyber Security in your Organisation - Act Now How to Increase Cyber Security in your Organisation - Act Now
17 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence
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How to Handle a Subject Access Request - Act Now How to Handle a Subject Access Request - Act Now
22 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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Information & Records Management Practitioner Certificate - Act Now Information & Records Management Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
24 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Records Management
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RIPA and Covert Surveillance - Act Now RIPA and Covert Surveillance - Act Now
25 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Regulation and Surveillance
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How to do Data Flow Mapping - Act Now How to do Data Flow Mapping - Act Now
28 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Records Management
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How to do Records Management for GDPR - Act Now How to do Records Management for GDPR - Act Now
06 Oct 2026 10:00 am
Records Management
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UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
08 Oct 2026 9:30 am
Data Protection
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FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
12 Oct 2026 9:30 am
Artificial Intelligence
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Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now Understanding GDPR Accountability and Conducting Data Protection Audits - Act Now
13 Oct 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre AI Governance Professional (AIGP) - The Training Centre
15 Oct 2026
Governance | Artificial Intelligence
Online (Live)
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How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now
15 Oct 2026 10:00 am
Governance
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AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now AI and Information Governance: Bridging Innovation and Compliance - Act Now
20 Oct 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence | Governance
Online (Live)
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How to do a Data Protection Impact Assessment - Act Now How to do a Data Protection Impact Assessment - Act Now
20 Oct 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
Online (Live)
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Lead Story

Bristol City Council must release audit report on diversity programme contracts after ICO rejects chilling effect arguments

The Information Commissioner has ordered Bristol City Council to disclose an internal audit report into Stepping Up, a Community Interest Company, after finding that the council's reliance on section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act was based on a qualified person's opinion that was too generic to be reasonable.
August 10, 2026
Bristol City Council must release audit report on diversity programme contracts after ICO rejects chilling effect arguments

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ACRO Criminal Records Office reprimanded by ICO following cyber security failings

August 12, 2026
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has urged organisations to strengthen “patching and security monitoring processes” after cyber security failings at ACRO Criminal Records Office left the personal information of up to ten-thousand people, including some individuals’ sensitive data, potentially exposed.
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High Court upholds Met Police 90-day WhatsApp auto-deletion policy despite ICO concerns

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review challenge to Metropolitan Police guidance requiring officers to activate WhatsApp's disappearing messages function on force-issued devices, upholding the lawfulness of a policy that automatically deletes conversations after 90 days despite documented concerns from the Information Commissioner's Office and the force's own data protection impact assessment.
Aug 03, 2026

Tribunal upholds Cabinet Office refusal to confirm whether ministers declared criminal convictions

The First-tier Tribunal has upheld, by a majority, the Cabinet Office's refusal to confirm or deny whether any serving government ministers declared criminal convictions during their appointment process, dismissing an appeal brought by Times journalist George Greenwood while ruling that the Information Commissioner erred in law by treating the relevant exemption as absolute rather than qualified.
Aug 03, 2026

Section 166 application succeeds as tribunal finds ICO left complaints unresolved

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has ordered the Information Commissioner to take further steps and issue a written outcome on a data protection complaint after finding that the regulator invited the complainant to return if dissatisfied with the department's response, received her further material but then did not demonstrate that it had concluded the complaints.
Jul 30, 2026

Tribunal rejects Cleveland Police blanket withholding of child protection guidance

The First-tier Tribunal has partly overturned an Information Commissioner's decision allowing Cleveland Police to withhold the entirety of its Child Protection Guidance, ruling that the force was not entitled to refuse the whole document under the law enforcement exemption and ordering disclosure of a redacted version that reveals the majority of its contents.
Jul 28, 2026

IPT awards damages against MI5 for first time over surveillance of journalist's phone data

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ordered MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland to pay £10,000 each in damages to former BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney, after finding that a series of communications data authorisations targeting him between 2006 and 2014 were not in accordance with the law and disproportionate, in breach of his rights under Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Jul 23, 2026

Polite, one-off request can still be vexatious where motive is personal, First-tier Tribunal rules

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has upheld the refusal of a freedom of information request to a special educational needs school as vexatious under section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, finding that a polite, factual and non-burdensome request could still amount to a misuse of the Act where its motive was the pursuit of a case against a named individual while criticising the Information Commissioner for relying on undisclosed allegations the requester had no…
Jul 13, 2026

Tribunal backs national security refusal of Home Protection Scheme statistics, citing mosaic disclosure risk

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has upheld the Northern Ireland Office's refusal to disclose aggregate application and expenditure figures for its Home Protection Scheme, finding that even high-level statistical data could contribute to a "mosaic" of information capable of assisting terrorists in assessing the protection afforded to police officers and other public servants.
Jul 13, 2026

DWP holds Universal Credit migration code but extracting it would breach FOIA cost limit, tribunal rules

The First-tier Tribunal has overturned an Information Commissioner's finding that the Department for Work and Pensions held no further information about how claimants were selected for Universal Credit managed migration, but ruled that the requester will receive nothing more because the cost of extracting the material would exceed the limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 despite neither the department nor the Commissioner had relied on this exemption.
Jul 10, 2026

"Should have held" is not "held": tribunal upholds FCDO not-held response over Somaliland Crown service certificate

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed an appeal against the Information Commissioner's finding that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office did not hold a copy of a 1955 certificate awarded on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II to a member of the Haud Constabulary in colonial-era Somaliland, concluding on the balance of probabilities that no in-scope information was held even though the department might once - and perhaps should - have held it.
Jul 07, 2026

Requester's claim that ICO confused him with his son fails to defeat section 14 vexatiousness finding

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has upheld the Information Commissioner's reliance on section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to refuse a request about a parish council's data protection registration, finding that the request formed part of a campaign of harassment against the council even though the appellant claimed the requesting history relied on belonged not to him but to his son, who lives at the same address and shares his name.
Jul 07, 2026

Late compliance, apology and resource pressures save council from contempt certification over EIR decision notice

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has refused to certify Guildford Borough Council to the Upper Tribunal for contempt over its admitted failure to comply with a substituted decision notice within the required 35 days, finding that the council's late and piecemeal response was capable of constituting contempt but that later compliance, an apology and an explanation grounded in resource constraints meant certification would be disproportionate.
Jul 07, 2026

Section 166 application dismissed after ICO opens fresh investigations into school, council and diocese data sharing

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed an application under section 166(2) of the Data Protection Act 2018 against the Information Commissioner, despite finding that the regulator's original response to a school employee's data sharing complaint was not an outcome to the Applicant's complaints, because a series of further investigations and outcome letters issued after proceedings began had answered all outstanding issues.
Jul 07, 2026

Court of Appeal rules environmental information is 'held' at date of request, not internal review

The Court of Appeal has unanimously allowed an appeal by the Information Commissioner and the Health and Safety Executive, ruling that the date for determining whether environmental information is held by a public authority under regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 is the date the authority receives the request, not the date of any subsequent internal review decision under regulation 11.
Jul 06, 2026

Tribunal upholds NCND response over historic nurse strike-off request

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has largely dismissed an appeal against an Information Commissioner decision that the Nursing and Midwifery Council was entitled to neither confirm nor deny (NCND) holding information about whether a named nurse was struck off by its predecessor regulators, allowing the appeal only on a narrow procedural failing in the NMC's refusal notice.
Jul 02, 2026

First-tier Tribunal upholds ICO refusal to disclose exact number of respite service users in small data identification case

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed an appeal against an Information Commissioner's decision notice that upheld a public authority's refusal to disclose the precise number of Carmarthenshire residents attending a respite care service, ruling that the small size of the cohort meant disclosure would unlawfully identify a living individual
Jun 30, 2026

Tribunal upholds MoJ cost limit refusal on IPP prisoner travel data

The First-tier Tribunal has dismissed a FOIA appeal against the Ministry of Justice's refusal to provide information about IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) licence holders' travel applications, upholding the cost limit exemption under section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and finding that the MoJ had met its advice and assistance duty under section 16.
Jun 25, 2026

Tribunal blocks disclosure of Covid committee minutes, citing Inquiry as superior accountability mechanism

The First-tier Tribunal has overturned an Information Commissioner's decision requiring disclosure of Cabinet committee documents from the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, ruling that the public interest in transparency was outweighed by the harm disclosure would cause to the constitutional convention of collective Cabinet responsibility and that the Covid-19 Inquiry provided a more appropriate and better-contextualised route to accountability than piecemeal release under FOIA.
Jun 23, 2026

Tribunal quashes vexatious ruling on building safety contract request after finding ICO misconstrued scope

A government department's reliance on section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to block a request for a Developer Remediation Contract has been overturned by the First-tier Tribunal, which found that the Information Commissioner's vexatiousness assessment was flawed because it proceeded on an artificially wide reading of the request while ignoring correspondence that made its practical focus clear.
Jun 22, 2026

Tribunal backs Insolvency Service's refusal to confirm whether it holds complaint response

A requester who used FOIA to seek a copy of the response to her own complaint has lost her appeal, after the First-tier Tribunal confirmed that section 40(5A) entitled the Insolvency Service to neither confirm nor deny holding the information, not least because the appellant herself had repeatedly insisted the material related to her personally.
Jun 10, 2026

MoD Wins FOI Battle Over Court Martial Disclosure

The Ministry of Defence has successfully defended a freedom of information appeal brought by a former RAF serviceman who sought disclosure of investigators' material and unused evidence from a court martial case in which he pleaded guilty to six charges of misapplication of service property.
Jun 09, 2026

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Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery

 

 

 

 

For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the tension between
aspiration and delivery. Targets have been set and missed; waiting lists
have grown longer,and the most vulnerable people in our society have
been left with fewer safe,affordable places to call home. Technology has a
key role to play to address this situation writes Andrew Lloyd
of Search Acumen.

Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery

For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the
tension between aspiration and delivery. Targets have been
set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer, and the
most vulnerable people in our society have been left with fewer
safe, affordable places to call home. Technology has a
key role to play to address this situation writes Andrew Lloyd
of Search Acumen.

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Ward Hadaway partner Phil Tompkins and solicitor Lucy Baxter discuss the main points of this new right to complain in our on-demand video.

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