Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
BIS: A new FREE online service, launched last week, will help people to get improved access to jobs & career development opportunities. Lifelong Learning Accounts will empower adults to take more control over their learning by providing clear information & advice on skills, careers & financial support all in one place.
As well as improving access to careers information & personal data, the accounts will encourage users to link up with other learners to share knowledge & experiences. The LLAs offer will continue to develop in 2012 and beyond to provide account holders with the information they want in a way that best suits them.
Press release ~ Lifelong Learning Accounts
ICO: Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said recently. The ICO has produced guidance on the security measures that organisations should have in place when storing personal information electronically.
Acting Head of Enforcement, Sally Anne Poole said: “The ICO’s guidance is clear: all personal information – the loss of which is liable to cause individuals damage and distress - must be encrypted. This is one of the most basic security measures and is not expensive to put in place - yet we continue to see incidents being reported to us. This type of breach is inexcusable and is putting people’s personal information at risk unnecessarily”.
Press release & links
EHRC: The Equality and Human Rights Commission has joined forces with the Care Quality Commission to produce equality & human rights guidance for care inspectors. The advice is aimed at ensuring people who are most vulnerable to harm have their rights upheld and respected.
