Ensure Compliance
with DPO Services for Schools & Multi academy trusts
DPO Services for Schools & Multi academy trusts
Are you a school and looking to recruit a Data Protection Officer or Manager to support your data protection compliance, but do not have the resources to employ a full-time employee? We understand schools do not have the time, nor resource capability to compete with the demands imposed on them by the legislation. That’s where we come in. We offer outsourcing services to act as your DPO or provide an interim solution on a permanent or temporary basis, taking a risk management cost effective approach.
Our data protection officer service for schools can provide a more sustainable long-term solution to your problems, so that you may continue to provide pupils with a high standard of education. We can be on stand-by, offering our legal advice to support your in-house data protection needs.
Our team of experienced DPOs will work closely with you to understand your requirements, ensuring compliance with EU GDPR, UK GDPR, Data Protection Act, PECR, and other relevant regulations.
Our services start from as little as £500 per month.
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What can we help with?
You will receive expert outsourced data protection officer support without the overhead of hiring in-house. Whether you need an interim DPO, an outsourced DPO, or specialist data protection expertise, we provide board-level guidance, compliance oversight, and practical, hands-on support tailored to your organisation.You will receive a named expert DPO to support your organisation. Whether you need an interim DPO, fully outsourced DPO, or specialist data protection expertise, we provide board-level guidance, compliance oversight, and practical, hands-on support tailored to your organisation.
A data breach can happen at any time. Our emergency response team is available 24/7, providing immediate guidance on breach containment, investigation, reporting, and lessons learned to protect your organisation and reputation.
High-risk processing requires a structured approach. We conduct and review DPIAs, identify risks, and provide clear mitigation strategies to keep your organisation compliant and secure.
Managing Data Subject Access Requests (SARs) and individual rights requests can be time-consuming. We handle, redact, and review requests efficiently, ensuring compliance with UK GDPR response deadlines while protecting sensitive data. You can see more about our SAR Service here.
Transferring personal data across borders requires the right safeguards. We assess your data sharing arrangements and ensure compliance with SCCs, IDTAs, and Transfer Risk Assessments. We also provide reports on international data flows and compliance status for leadership discussions.
Your compliance is only as strong as your weakest link. We conduct due diligence on your suppliers, review Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), and help mitigate risks when working with third parties. Findings can be presented at governance meetings to ensure informed decision-making.
Robust policies are the foundation of a strong data protection framework. We create, review, and update key documents, including privacy notices, RoPAs, data protection policies, retention schedules, and internal procedures, ensuring they align with ICO expectations and industry best practices. Our outsourced data protection officer services ensure policies remain up to date with legal changes, tailored to your organisation’s needs, and effectively communicated to staff.
Navigating regulatory requirements can be complex. We act as your main point of contact with the ICO, handling complaints, audits, breach reporting, and regulatory inquiries, ensuring your organisation is represented professionally.
Stay ahead of compliance risks with an independent GDPR and information security audit. We can assess policies, systems, and controls, identifying gaps, risks, and areas for improvement, ensuring your organisation remains compliant with data protection legislation.
You’ll have ongoing access to expert advice and support with our outsourced DPO services, whether via phone or through our dedicated ticketing system, ensuring you get real-time, audited guidance whenever you need it. We will always ensure that there is cover if your dedicated outsourced Data Protection Officer is on holiday or off sick.
Empower your team with expert-led training on GDPR, AI, and data protection. We can deliver custom training sessions, from board-level briefings to employee workshops, ensuring your staff understand their responsibilities, risks, and best practices. Read more about our training here.
Data protection isn’t just a legal requirement—it’s a business priority. We provide high-level strategic advice to leadership teams, ensuring data privacy is embedded into your wider governance and risk management strategies. Our outsourced DPO attends monthly, quarterly, and yearly board meetings or committees to report on compliance, risk management, and project progress, ensuring senior stakeholders are informed and engaged.
AI and automation are revolutionising business—but they also introduce new risks. We ensure your AI tools comply with data protection laws, including DPIAs, supplier due diligence, and governance frameworks.
As a DPAS customer, you gain exclusive access to a wealth of free resources designed to keep your organisation informed and compliant. Our expert-led webinars cover the latest developments in data protection, regulatory updates, and practical compliance strategies. You’ll also receive complimentary guides, toolkits, and templates to support your internal processes. Additionally, DPAS customers get priority invitations to industry events, networking opportunities, and roundtable discussions.
You will receive expert DPO support without the overhead of hiring in-house. Whether you need an interim DPO, outsourced DPO, or specialist data protection expertise, we provide board-level guidance, compliance oversight, and practical, hands-on support tailored to your organisation.
A data breach can happen at any time. Our emergency response team is available 24/7, providing immediate guidance on breach containment, investigation, reporting, and lessons learned to protect your organisation and reputation.
High-risk processing requires a structured approach. We conduct and review DPIAs, identifying risks and providing clear mitigation strategies to keep your organisation compliant and secure.
Managing Data Subject Access Requests (SARs) and individual rights requests can be time-consuming. We handle, redact, and review requests efficiently, ensuring compliance with UK GDPR response deadlines while protecting sensitive data. You can see more about our SAR Service here.
Transferring personal data across borders requires the right safeguards. We assess your data sharing arrangements and ensure compliance with SCCs, IDTAs, and Transfer Risk Assessments. We also provide reports on international data flows and compliance status for leadership discussions.
Your compliance is only as strong as your weakest link. We conduct due diligence on your suppliers, review Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), and help mitigate risks when working with third parties. Findings can be presented at governance meetings to ensure informed decision-making.
Robust policies are the foundation of a strong data protection framework. We create, review, and update key documents, including privacy notices, RoPAs, data protection policies, retention schedules, and internal procedures, ensuring they align with ICO expectations and industry best practices. Our service ensures policies remain up to date with legal changes, tailored to your organisation’s needs, and effectively communicated to staff.
Navigating regulatory requirements can be complex. We act as your main point of contact with the ICO, handling complaints, audits, breach reporting, and regulatory inquiries, ensuring your organisation is represented professionally.
Stay ahead of compliance risks with an independent GDPR and information security audit. We can assess policies, systems, and controls, identifying gaps, risks, and improvement areas, ensuring your organisation remains compliant with data protection legislation.
You’ll have ongoing access to expert advice and support with our DPO services, whether via phone or through our dedicated ticketing system, ensuring you get real-time audited guidance whenever you need it. We will always ensure that there is cover if your dedicated DPO is on holiday or off sick.
Empower your team with expert-led GDPR, AI and data protection training. We can deliver custom training sessions, from board-level briefings to employee workshops, ensuring your staff understands their responsibilities, risks, and best practices. Read more about our training here.
Data protection isn’t just a legal requirement—it’s a business priority. We provide high-level strategic advice to leadership teams, ensuring data privacy is embedded into your wider governance and risk management strategies. Our DPOs attend monthly, quarterly, and yearly board meetings or committees to report on compliance, risk management, and project progress, ensuring senior stakeholders are informed and engaged.
AI and automation are revolutionising business—but they also introduce new risks. We ensure your AI tools comply with data protection laws, from DPIAs to supplier due diligence and governance frameworks.
As a DPAS customer, you gain exclusive access to a wealth of free resources designed to keep your organisation informed and compliant. Our expert-led webinars cover the latest data protection developments, regulatory updates, and practical compliance strategies. You’ll also receive complimentary guides, toolkits, and templates to support your internal processes. Additionally, DPAS customers get priority invitations to industry events, networking opportunities, and roundtable discussions, ensuring you stay ahead in the ever-evolving privacy landscape.
Outsourced or Interim Data Protection Officer Project
Bristol Airport approached DPAS several years ago, looking for data protection officer outsourced support.
They wanted advice of projects across the airport, and support assiting the in-house team in responding to complex enquiries. DPAS has been providing DPO services since, providing support remotely, to ensure the airport maintains its consistent compliance.
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bristol airport have worked closely with dpas for serveral years
They have been instrumental in providing services helping us to deliver transformative projects across our airport, legal support, with an ethical and pragmatic twist.
DATA PROTECTION SPECIALIST
BRISTOL AIRPORT
Benefits
- RISK MANAGEMENT AND COST EFFECTIVE APPROACH
Hiring a full-time employee, with the correct subject matter expertise can be costly, especially for schools that may not have the resources to support a full-time staff member. By outsourcing your compliance needs, it can result in significant cost savings for your school, as you will only pay for what you need.
- LIABILITY REDUCTION
Data protection regulations are constantly changing and evolving. When you engage with our services, you can rely on the expertise of your service provider to stay up to date on the latest regulations and ensure that your organisation is compliant. In turn reducing the liability imposed on your school to comply.
- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
When you outsource our services, you gain access to a team of expert data protection consultants who have specialised knowledge and experience in data protection. This can help ensure that your school is complying with all relevant data protection regulations and best practices, and aid in developing staff internally.
- SKILL STRENTHENING
Outsourcing our services will strengthen your schools skills set, providing you with the tools needed to tackle the law. This will also allow you to focus on your core business activities, whilst leaving the management of data protection to the experts. This can help improve overall efficiency and productivity within your organisation.
- VERSATILITY
Outsourcing your service requirements provides you with greater flexibility to scale up, or down, as needed. You can adjust the level of support you receive based on your school’s needs, which can be especially valuable over the busy and quiet periods of the academic year.
- IMPARTIALITY
By outsourcing our services, you will be able to ensure that there is no conflict of interest, so as to ensure the competing interests of staff and pupils do not disrupt the service delivery of education. We can help you ensure that the rights of data subjects are balanced, handled in an independent, and diplomatic manner.
DPO as a service
frequently asked questions
An outsourced data protection officer is an external data protection expert who takes on the legal responsibilities of a Data Protection Officer for your organisation. Instead of hiring an in-house DPO, you gain access to expert GDPR support, compliance oversight, and regulatory guidance at a fraction of the cost
Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:
– You are a public authority or body (except courts acting in a judicial capacity).
– Your core activities involve large-scale processing of special category or criminal offence data.
– You systematically monitor individuals on a large scale
We provide an emergency response service for data breaches, cyber incidents, and regulatory concerns. You can contact us 24/7 via phone or our ticketing system, and our team will guide you through containment, impact assessment, regulatory reporting, and mitigation strategies.
You will be assigned a dedicated outsourced DPO who understands your organisation, industry, and compliance needs. However, we also provide backup cover if your DPO is unavailable, ensuring you always have a fully qualified expert at your disposal.
All of our DPOs have years of experience working in privacy. They all hold various academic qualifications and at a minimum hold BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, AI for Data Protection Practitioners CPD and have Cyber Security training from the Open University.
As your appointed outsourced data protection officer, we act as the main point of contact with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and other regulatory bodies. We respond to ICO inquiries, manage audits, and handle compliance investigations on your behalf, ensuring the best possible outcome.
Our pricing is based on your organisation’s size, sector, and data protection needs. We offer flexible packages, from retainer-based support to full-service outsourced DPO services. Prices start from as little as £400 per month. Contact us for a tailored quote based on your requirements.
Medical and Healthcare, Education and Schools, Public Sector and Local Authorities, Financial Services, Retail and Leisure, Charities and Nonprofits and many more. All of our team have specialisms in different sectors so we will ensure you are paired with the best outsourced DPO to meet your organisation’s needs.
Contact us to discuss your organisation’s needs. We will put together a tailored proposal based on your organisation’s requirements and the level of support you need. You are then assigned a dedicated outsourced data protection officer, we will send you a contract to sign and then we can get started.
An outsourced DPO is an external data protection expert who takes on the legal responsibilities of a Data Protection Officer for your organisation. Instead of hiring an in-house DPO, you gain access to expert GDPR support, compliance oversight, and regulatory guidance at a fraction of the cost.
Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:
– You are a public authority or body (except courts acting in a judicial capacity).
– Your core activities involve large-scale processing of special category or criminal offence data.
– You systematically monitor individuals on a large scale
We provide an emergency response service for data breaches, cyber incidents, and regulatory concerns. You can contact us 24/7 via phone or our ticketing system, and our team will guide you through containment, impact assessment, regulatory reporting, and mitigation strategies.
You will be assigned a dedicated DPO who understands your organisation, industry, and compliance needs. However, we also provide backup cover if your DPO is unavailable, ensuring you always have a fully qualified expert at your disposal.
All of our DPOs have years of experience working in privacy. They all hold various academic qualifications and at a minimum hold BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, AI for Data Protection Practitioners CPD and have Cyber Security training from the Open University.
As your appointed Data Protection Officer, we act as the main point of contact with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and other regulatory bodies. We respond to ICO inquiries, manage audits, and handle compliance investigations on your behalf, ensuring the best possible outcome.
Our pricing is based on your organisation’s size, sector, and data protection needs. We offer flexible packages, from retainer-based support to full-service DPO solutions. Prices start from as little as £400 per month. Contact us for a tailored quote based on your requirements.
Medical and Healthcare, Education and Schools, Public Sector and Local Authorities, Financial Services, Retail and Leisure, Charities and Nonprofits and many more. All of our team have specialisms in different sectors so we will ensure you are paired with the best DPO to meet your organisation’s needs.
Contact us to discuss your organisation’s needs.
We will put together a tailored proposal together based on your organisation’s requirements and the level of support you need. You are then assigned a dedicated DPO, we will send you a contract to sign and then we can get started.
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WE WORK WITH FTSE 100s Multi-National Organisations Schools Universities Councils Local Governments Agencies NHS Trusts GP Practices Retailers Charities Multi-Academy Trusts Housing Associations Ambulance Services Insurance Companies Sporting Associations Airports Retail Companies Hospitality Businesses
We decided to use DPAS because we felt they were a good fit for the BOXPARK brand, being a boutique data protection advisory company. Since the commencement of the project, we have received fantastic service delivered by a great team - making a highly complex project easy to digest. They hit every deadline and continue to provide us easy-to-understand data protection advice and support.
They went out of their way to support me in a short timeframe, not only to fulfil my data privacy criteria - which included more complex special category data processing - but also with trusted legal support, which - being all under one DPAS roof - was easier to access and significantly more time and cost effective.
We enlisted DPAS to help with our journey to GDPR compliance, as we didn't have the resources and skills within our team. DPAS' approach was thorough, efficient and remarkably unobtrusive from an operations perspective. Post completion of the project, we had a clearer idea of the risks and issues that attend GDPR compliance directly, and could tidy up in-house data processing to ensure we are more efficient as a business.
On top of an already demanding workload, we had a new system integration, a merger to form a new Trust, and the impact of COVID to deal with. DPAS really helped to take the pressure off by assisting with complex SARs, and DPIAs. With no idea how many SARs you may receive, having the ability to flex by using additional resources can be quite useful. Knowing I can rely on Charlotte's support with DPIAs and data sharing agreements really takes the pressure off. It's really helpful having someone that can take the time out to review requests.
Bristol Airport have worked closely with DPAS for several years, and they have been instrumental in providing their services, helping us to deliver transformative projects across our airport.
DPAS have been hugely helpful in recent years, in ensuring that SWAST are doing our best and continuing to comply with information governance best practice and compliance. From our experience, every one of the team is knowledgeable and extremely competent. We have benefited from a range of services from DPAS and specifically with them acting as our Data Protection Officer. They have offered training and advice, and added to our Information Governance capacity, which was welcome and much needed.
We were looking for an independent review and audit of our data processing activities and policies across the Rhodes Trust and our partner programmes. When we went to the market, DPAS impressed us with the breadth and depth of the services they offered. We are a relatively complex organisation, but the DPAS team quickly understood how our work fits together, and throughout the audit process, I’ve appreciated the expertise of each member of the team that we’ve worked with. Their advice throughout has been reassuringly thorough, pragmatic, and tailored to our needs.
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild were keen to ensure we were delivering our GDPR commitment on time and on track. We therefore needed a qualified Data Protection Officer to monitor our progress, provide assurance that we were on the road to compliance, and maintain the role going forward. We sourced DPAS as they were local and have 20 years of data protection experience. We are very happy with the high standards of service received, and the training provided was not only delivered professionally, but completely tailored to our business type. I highly recommend Data Privacy Advisory if you have GDPR worries or you are considering having a Data Protection Officer look after your organisation.
DPAS provides us with excellent, responsive advice when we need to supplement our in-house resource – a great, reliable service when we need it most.
When faced with a complex Subject Access Request, we went out to the market to look for a provider that had the knowledge and experience to complete the data conversion and redaction on our behalf. We were impressed with the team at DPAS from the offset and entrusted them to deliver the required redacted documents within the legal timeframes. We found the team responsive and also accommodating when we needed tweaks to how the final information was presented – I wouldn’t hesitate using the team at DPAS again.
