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Despite the Modern Slavery act being introduced  in 2015 many people struggle with the idea that slavery is present in the UK.   It is estimated that many tens of thousands of people are in modern slavery in the UK today.  Most #slaves are trafficked to the UK from overseas into forced labour in #agriculture, #construction, #hospitality, #catering, #manufacturing and car washes.  Additionally many women and girls are forced into the sex trade. It is also thought that there is also a significant number of British nationals in #slavery.  some of the possible signs of modern slavery could include people who: have their movements restricted or who always accompanied are collected or dropped off to work at very unusual times look injured and malnourished frequently show signs of bruising and/or injuries often appearing malnourished and ill. appear to lack important belongings such passports, ID and address information wear the same clothes ev...

Despite the inroads made #bullying and #harassment remains an all too familiar occurrence in too many businesses and organisations.  Even the best policies and procedures are only effective when managers and staff understand and follow them.  It is extremely common for bullying and harassment to go unreported for fear of reprisal and further harassment; all too often those being bullying are forced to leave the business. This short term and ongoing churn and wastage is a costly expensive and one that is best addresses by a pro-active approach to reducing bullying, one that includes annual training for all managers on what  bullying and harassment looks like, what is acceptable behaviour and what is not.  This training should also include advice on how best to handling upward bullying from staff. Our one-day workshop on combatting bullying and harassment covers all of this and more

#GDRP Privacy Impact Assessments are a highly effective way to ensure privacy is embedded into all policies, practice, projects and activities. Our one day workshop show you how to implement #PIA with the minimum of burden read more about the course at https://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/privacy-impact-assessments

The #PECR, updated in 2018 sits along side the #GDPR and imposes strict rules on electronic marketing ie: phone, email, sms, fax as well as tough rules on the use of web site cookies, and those providing public access to telephone and internet services. The PECR extends the GDPR and applies even if no personal data is being processed. For those organisations that have websites, use any form of electronic marketing or run a communications network it is important that the rules and understood. Concrew Trainings one-day workshops on data protection are designed to provide this essential refresher training GDPR TRAINING PECR TRAINING PIA TRAINING

With the #GDPR legislation going live this week, we have updated our one day GDPR workshop to reflect the very latest developments. 

The Information Commissioner's Office web site provides information and guidance on the #GDPR and carrying out #PIA.  For those looking for more bespoke support Concrew Training can assist

Lots of interest in our Privacy Impact Assessment #PIA #PIAS training course.  People are starting to realise that #dataprotection legislation and the #GDPR will only be achieved if privacy is considered at ever stage of every policy, procedures, practice, project and activity - data protection privacy impact assessments help deliver this.

Data Protection Privacy Impact Assessments ( PIA, PIAS ) are a highly effective way to embed data protection and #privacy into all your #policies, #procedures, #practice, #activities and #projects. for those looking to develop their own approaches to PIAS the ICO provides excellent guidance here alternatively Concrew Training offers on site support on your premises in terms of staff training and development in #DataProtection, #GDPR and #PIA #PIAS Data Protection and GDPR training Privacy Impact Assessment Training

Hardly a month seems to go by without a major cyber security breach hitting the headlines but just how big a risk is cyber security to the average organisation? Its easy to sweep the #GDPR and #CyberSecurity under the mat and think it won't happen here.   The annual cyber security survey provides a useful insight into just how wrong that view may be. The 2017 survey  reported: "46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. " "Overall, businesses that hold electronic personal data on customers are more likely than average to have had breaches (51% versus 46%). Nonetheless, breaches are still prevalent among organisations whose senior managers consider cyber security a low priority (35%), and in firms where online services are not at all seen as core to the business (41%)." "Among the 46 per cent of businesses that detected breaches in the last 12 months, the survey finds that the average bu...

The deadlines for reporting on equal pay are 30 March 2018 for public sector organisations and 04 April 2018 for businesses and charities.   The Equality and Human Rights Commission will commence enforcement action on 09 April 2018 giving a further 28 days to comply. One recent estimates suggested 33% of FTSE 100 companies had still to report and another that for all eligible employers the figure was closer to 12% Given the large number of organisations who have still to report and the time available to gather the information and report penalties are likely to be widespread.   It is also probable that many of those organisations who have ignored equal pay reporting will also have paid too little attention to The GDPR and will be at risk of fines for non compliance in that area too More on Equal Pay Reporting More on The GDPR #equalpay #gdpr #eprivacy #equality #concrewtraining