The Information Compliance Office has developed a Data Protection Annual Compliance Checklist for University Faculties, Departments, Divisions and other Institutions. The checklist sets out a number of practical ‘housekeeping’ actions to be completed on an annual basis by individual University departments to help ensure their ongoing compliance with data protection law.
Checklist for 2023-24
The checklist for the academic year 2023-24 is in preparation and will be issued in April 2024; completed copies will be requested by July 2024. The actions in the Checklist will largely be the same as 2022-23 but there will be some changes to the mechanics of the return (e.g. requiring check-box replies as well as free text commentary) and to the feedback/follow-up arrangements. Direct communications to departments will be issued in due course.
Checklist for 2022-23
The checklist exercise for the academic year 2022-23 is finished.
The checklist was issued in early March 2023; departments (and equivalents) were contacted directly and asked to submit a completed copy by mid-July 2023.
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Data Protection Annual Compliance Checklist for 2022-23 (Word)
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Data Protection Annual Compliance Checklist for 2022-23 (pdf)
Online briefing sessions took place in April 2023; the slides are available.
Feedback has been given to departments on their completed checklists for 2022-23.
Past checklists
The checklist was first issued in November 2020 for the academic year 2020-21. It was revised and reissued in November 2021 for the academic year 2021-22. These past versions are retained for reference but should no longer be used.
Queries
Queries may be addressed to data.protection@admin.cam.ac.uk.