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  • AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    28 Jul 2026 9:30 am
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    This course is tailored specifically for those working in information governance and data protection, offering practical insights and actionable strategies to integrate AI in the workplace and beyond. From real-world case studies to the latest regulatory updates, you will gain a good understanding of how to manage AI ethically, securely, and in compliance with emerging laws.

  • FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    FOI Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    30 Jul 2026 9:30 am
    Online (Live)
    From £2199 plus VAT

    This foundation course is designed for those wishing to acquire detailed knowledge of the FOIA and develop the practical skills to enable them to become a more effective FOI Officer.

  • Data Controller, Processor or Joint Controller: What am I? - Act Now

    Data Controller, Processor or Joint Controller: What am I? - Act Now

    31 Jul 2026 10:00 am
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    From £449 plus VAT

    This interactive workshop, led by Kirsty Squires, will explain the key differences between data controllers, joint controllers and data processors and what the roles and responsibilities are for each. By the end of this workshop, you will gain the confidence to decide on what an organisation's role is under GDPR and how to manage your relationship with them.

  • FOIA Update - Act Now

    FOIA Update - Act Now

    31 Jul 2026 10:00 am
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    From £449 plus VAT

    In this practical workshop, our FOI expert will dissect significant ICO and Tribunal decisions issued during the preceding 12 months. This is an advanced level workshop suitable for experienced FOI practitioners and others with a good working knowledge of the legislation.

  • UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now

    04 Aug 2026 9:30 am
    Online (Live)
    From £2199 plus VAT

    For all those undertaking the DPO role, this foundation level certificate covers the essential knowledge and practical skills required to successfully navigate the UK data protection landscape.

  • CCTV, Drones and Body Worn Cameras: Ensuring Data Protection Compliance - Act Now

    CCTV, Drones and Body Worn Cameras: Ensuring Data Protection Compliance - Act Now

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

    This one-day workshop examines all the issues in detail by discussing practical scenarios. It will teach you how to plan and implement a CCTV project including key skills such as completing a Data Protection Impact Assessment and assessing camera evidence. Our expert trainer will answer all your questions including when you can use CCTV, when it can be covert, who you can share images with and how to deal with a request for images.

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How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now How to be a Senior Information Risk Owner - Act Now
29 Jul 2026 10:00 am
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30 Jul 2026 9:30 am
Artificial Intelligence
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Data Controller, Processor or Joint Controller: What am I? - Act Now Data Controller, Processor or Joint Controller: What am I? - Act Now
31 Jul 2026 10:00 am
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FOIA Update - Act Now FOIA Update - Act Now
31 Jul 2026 10:00 am
Freedom of Information
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UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
04 Aug 2026 9:30 am
Data Protection
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CCTV, Drones and Body Worn Cameras: Ensuring Data Protection Compliance - Act Now CCTV, Drones and Body Worn Cameras: Ensuring Data Protection Compliance - Act Now
05 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Data Protection
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Introduction to GDPR Webinar - Act Now Introduction to GDPR Webinar - Act Now
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Data Protection
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05 Aug 2026 11:30 am
Freedom of Information
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Records Management
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Handling FOI and EIR Requests For Personal Data - Act Now Handling FOI and EIR Requests For Personal Data - Act Now
12 Aug 2026 10:00 am
Artificial Intelligence
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How to do Records Management for GDPR - Act Now How to do Records Management for GDPR - Act Now
14 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now The General Data Protection Regulation - Act Now
17 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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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
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Data Ethics - Act Now Data Ethics - Act Now
18 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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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 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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21 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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EIR Exceptions - Act Now EIR Exceptions - Act Now
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27 Aug 2026 10:00 am
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Working with Childrens Data - Act Now Working with Childrens Data - Act Now
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Intermediate Certificate in GDPR Practice - Act Now Intermediate Certificate in GDPR Practice - Act Now
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02 Sep 2026 9:30 am
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02 Sep 2026 10:00 am
Freedom of Information
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UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now UK GDPR Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
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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
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Training: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection Training: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
08 Sep 2026
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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
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How to Share Personal Data - Act Now How to Share Personal Data - Act Now
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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
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AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now AI Governance Practitioner Certificate - Act Now
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16 Sep 2026
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ICO reports 40% rise in FOI complaints as regulator steps up public sector oversight

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has revealed that Freedom of Information (FOI) complaints increased by more than 40% in 2025/26, as it pledged to continue taking enforcement action against public authorities that fail to meet their statutory obligations.
July 24, 2026
ICO reports 40% rise in FOI complaints as regulator steps up public sector oversight

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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

Tribunal rules ONS wrongly branded "Black Lives Matter" FOI requests vexatious

The First-tier Tribunal has ruled that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) unlawfully refused a series of Freedom of Information requests as vexatious, finding that a former employee who sought internal records relating to a controversial "Black Lives Matter" staff email had a genuine and legitimate purpose in making them.
Jun 08, 2026

Tribunal upholds NCND response over planning enforcement correspondence despite arson attack backdrop

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed an Environmental Information Regulations appeal brought by a resident seeking to establish whether Lambeth Council had written to the owner of a neighbouring property in the weeks before an arson attack on his home, finding that the privacy rights of the property owner outweighed the appellant's legitimate interests in disclosure.
Jun 02, 2026

Councils not required to publish full planning application forms on statutory register

The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) has dismissed an appeal seeking unredacted disclosure of a planning application form, finding that local planning authorities are not legally obliged to place the entirety of such forms - including personal contact details and owner names - on the statutory planning register.
May 12, 2026

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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
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Publication of judgments in care proceedings

A High Court judge in the Family Division recently considered the question of the extent to which judgments he had handed down should be anonymised and whether the transparency order in force in respect of care proceedings should be varied accordingly. Molly Giles considers the key points from the ruling.
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AI in education: the importance of transparency

The debate around AI in education often focuses on capability. What can it do? How much time can it save? Yet some of the most important questions are not technical at all. Adam Halsey looks at why transparency should come before implementation.
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Shadow AI in the workplace: the risks for public sector employers

The use of AI tools by staff and contractors without formal organisational approval is a growing risk with serious consequences for the public sector write Declan Goodwin and Frederick Lambert.
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The New Data Protection Complaints Regime

From Friday, 19 June 2026, organisations can no longer rely on complaints going straight to the ICO. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 introduces a new regime requiring them to receive, investigate and resolve data protection complaints themselves. Maggie Burns and Charlotte Smith explain what you need to know.
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Case Management doesn’t stop at the case

Why collaboration, communication and visibility are becoming increasingly important across legal and public sector services.
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Key Data Protection Issues for Automated Recruitment in the Public Sector

The need to recruit faster in a competitive market, the need to minimise costs in the recruitment process, and the need to secure the best candidate quickly, makes the use of AI an appealing option for any employer including public bodies. But there are pitfalls for the unwary write David Leach and Charlotte Smith.
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Getting the timing right

The date for assessing whether a request is vexatious or manifestly unreasonable, in the context of freedom of information and environmental information refusal decisions, is an issue with a surprisingly long tail - particularly given its practical importance to public bodies when faced with information rights requests.
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Procuring trust: managing AI risks in public sector contracts

Alexi Markham and Jocelyn S Paulley consider what public sector and in‑house teams typically need most at procurement stage, the key AI risks that show up in public sector contracts and the practical steps that help manage them.
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AI in Education: Why Data Protection Must Come First

Artificial Intelligence promises a lot. It can undoubtedly do amazing things. But secretly (or maybe not so secretly), it also makes us slightly nervous. Adam Halsey looks at what this means for schools, and why data protection needs to sit at the centre of any decision to use AI.
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Preparing for the new complaints regime

From 19 June 2026, all organisations acting as data controllers are required to have in place an effective process to enable individuals to raise complaints about how their personal data is handled. Ashleigh Dibb looks at what this will mean in practice.
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When data protection doesn’t protect you

Recently, the Information Commissioner’s Office published the outcome of a criminal prosecution. The title? Just two names: Christopher Munro and William Chipoma. No explanation. No softening. No anonymity. And that, in itself, is a powerful lesson in how data protection law really works.
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New Regulations for the Use of AI in Court Documents?

Fred Groves and Christopher Watkins provide insight into growing judicial concern about accuracy, professional responsibility and the efficient administration of justice in the face of Artificial Intelligence.
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Does the rollout of AI in public sector policy making and delivery comply with public law principles? There are numerous pitfalls for public bodies writes Nicola Cain.
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The Data Use and Access Act 2025 introduces a new right to complain, which will come into effect on 19 June 2026. This right elevates data protection complaints from an internal process issue to a matter of legal compliance, with all organisations requiring a consistent, robust, and well-documented complaints framework in place.

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