I’ve been working on data protection issues for 20 or so years, and a question that has constantly come up is ‘is sharing warnings for staff about risks posed by customers and service users a breach of data protection?’. The answer is no: data protection does not prevent you from sharing warnings. This course will help you to build a stable, fair and effective warning system that uses personal data fairly.

Course includes:

• Lawful basis: health and safety, legitimate interests

• Fairness and minimisation: what is your trigger for creating a warning

• Transparency: do you tell the subjects of the warnings, and what do you tell them?

• Litigation in the UK on warning systems – the Clift case

• What the Information Commissioner used to say about violence warning markers (they don’t say anything any more)

• Reviews, retention and challenges