Data Protection for Managers: Your Team, Your Data
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Recognise the team data you hold, write fair and factual notes, handle requests and complaints the right way, and set the standard for your team.
- Assign to
- Line managers
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Evidence
- 10-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Recognise the team data you hold, especially special category data.
- Keep notes factual, necessary and in the right place.
- Pass on requests, complaints and possible breaches the same day.
- Make fair calls on monitoring, sharing and keeping data.
The course
- 01What you hold
- 02Writing it fairly
- 03Requests and complaints
- 04Setting the standard
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite column G”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. In “Marcus asks”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “Column G meets a subject access request”; and “Joe’s complaint, day by day”.
How you know they finished
The 10-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
- Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
- Equality Act 2010
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 10-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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