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Schools: Data Protection

Question for Department for Education

UIN 62669, tabled on 1 February 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department takes to ensure that commercial organisations which sell access to school websites and teachers' emails do so securely and responsibly.

Answered on

10 February 2017

The Department for Education provides advice to help schools understand their obligations and duties in relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA).

This advice is underpinned by a supplier self-certification scheme which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cloud-software-services-and-the-data-protection-act

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