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GDPR 2020 are you AGE compliant ?

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GDPR 2020 - are you AGE compliant ? Are you #GDPR compliant? When do you last review and update your GDPR policies and procedures, when did you last train staff in Data Protection.  The amount of companies and organisations reporting breaches to the ICO continues to rise. Ultimately and most can be attributed to management and staffs’ poor understanding, implementation of and adherence to, the GDPR legislation. Last week the ICO issued a new and final set of rules designed to improve the protection of children.  Do you know what the 15 standards are?  Do your staff and especially those involved in developing and commissioning products and services understand them fully? Are all of your online systems, procedures, policies, products and services age appropriate? The final code expects that the best interests of children will be a primary consideration when designing and developing online services. It gives practical guidance on data protection safeguards that ensure online servic

An Introduction to Employee Representation - half day course

Concrew Training is pleased to announce a new half day course for new or pending Employee Representatives or those thinking about introducing employee representation. follow the link below for more information on the course https://concrew-training.co.uk/introduction-employee-representation

GDPR Cookie Compliance - Free Test

The GDPR and pending UK GDPR, require web site users to OPT In to all but essential web site cookies.   Recent anyalysis shows that only about 11% of web sites are compliant. It is no longer sufficient to just notify users that the web site uses cookies, web sites need to block all non essential/technical cookies until the user has pro-actively ticked a box to accept them. The easy way to see if your website is compliant is to use the free check at CookieMetrix  there is no need to sign up or log in to run a simple test on any web site.  Concrew Training only uses non essential cookies on its main web sites, but we have still to work out how to switch them off on this page !!!!