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Information governance
Guidance on managing information in schools and settings.
Our Information Governance Support (IGS) service provides a range of services to help you comply with data protection, GDPR and information requests. IGS offers the following to support your information governance needs:
- advice and guidance
- completion of statutory requests for information
- information audits
- support packages
- training and consultancy
Information sharing protocol (ISP)
We have set up a protocol to support information sharing between Essex County Council (ECC) and education providers to deliver services. The Education and Learning Information Sharing Protocol’ carries out the following functions:
- supports safe, lawful and secure
- helps organisations meet their legal accountability and transparency obligations
- sets out the statutory and current practice sharing between education providers
For more information about the protocol download the following documents:
- The Education and Learning Information Sharing Protocol (Word, 125KB)
- Education Service Addendums to Overarching Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) (Word, 78.6KB)
Sign up to our ISP
We want all schools, settings, colleges and training providers to sign up to our ISP.
To sign up, get a senior leader for your organisation to complete our Wider Eastern Information Stakeholder Forum online form.
Contact us
For more information or if you have any questions, visit our Information Governance support website.
Alternatively, you can contact us:
Telephone: 0333 032 2970
Email: igs@essex.gov.uk
For information on how information law is regulated and guidance on managing information, you can also visit the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website.