The Information Commissioner's Office regulates and advises on information law. Their website provides guidance to support you to manage information well.
The ECC Information Governance Support team (IGS) offer a traded service to support your information governance needs:
- advice and guidance
- completing statutory requests for information
- training/consultancy
- support packages
- information audits
Contact IGS
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
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 2024-2027 (Word, 65KB)
- Education Service Addendums to Overarching Information Sharing Protocol 2024-2027 (ISP) (Word, 134KB)
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 online form.