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Creating Data Protection Impact Assessments

Embedding Privacy by Design

Chaired by
Lynn Wyeth

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Overview

Whether you know the basics of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) or you’re completely new to the process, this course provides you with the necessary skills to carry out DPIAs to comply with data protection legislation.

Through practical and interactive workshop sessions, understand the role of DPIAs in ensuring compliance with data protection legislation; identify when a DPIA is required; successfully describe information flows; mitigate and control privacy risks and create a DPIA to use back at your organisation.

Leave our Creating Data Protection Impact Assessments course with the skills to embed a privacy by design approach and methods to reduce or eliminate privacy risks to your organisation.


Information Governance Manager -
Leicester City Council

Lynn is the Information Governance Manager at Leicester City Council. Having previously worked as an MP and MEP’s political assistant, Lynn moved to her local council where she now oversees the Council’s Information Governance agenda including data protection, FOI, information sharing, RIPA and CCTV.

She has also helped health organisations with their information governance procedures.

Lynn is the author of two books, A Practical Guide to Handling Freedom of Information Requests and Data Protection: Compliance in Practice.


Lynn Wyeth


Learning Outcomes

  • Identify and evaluate privacy solutions

  • Enhance the integrity and security of your data

  • Comply with the latest data protection legislation by carrying out DPIAs

  • Learn how to embed a privacy by design approach across your organisation

  • Identify, assess and mitigate privacy risks within all your data processing activities





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Agenda

09:25 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 11:00 Data Protection Impact Assessments and Data Protection Legislation

  • Case studies of effective use of DPIAs

  • Ensure effective compliance with the GDPR

  • Understand the role of DPIAs in ensuring compliance with GDPR

  • How DPIAs can help you to develop more effective information governance strategies

11:00 - 12:00 Identifying the Need for a DPIA

  • Discuss privacy issues with key stakeholders

  • Understand how project management activity can address privacy issues

  • Learn how to answer screening questions to identify a proposal’s potential impact on privacy

12:00 - 13:00 Describing Information Flows

  • Identify potential future uses of information

  • Consult colleagues on the practical implications of using data

  • Engender an appreciation and awareness of DPIA within your organisation

  • Gain the confidence to explain how information will be obtained, used and retained

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:00 Reflection Session

  • Trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course

  • Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another

14:00 - 14:45 Privacy and Related Risks

  • Maintain a record of the identified risks

  • Conduct a compliance check against the GDPR and other relevant legislation

  • Record the risks to individuals, including possible intrusions on privacy where appropriate

  • Assess the corporate risks including regulatory action, reputational damage and loss of public trust

14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break


15:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Creating a Successful DPIA

In this interactive session, you will work with the trainer to create your own DPIA, to use within your organisation.

  • Take back a comprehensive DPIA toolkit

  • Learn how to work with all key stakeholders

  • Consider privacy security issues when writing a DPIA

  • Learn what key information needs to be included in a DPIA

  • Ensure your DPIA avoids reputational damage and potential fines

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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