All of our customers have access to the DPE Knowledge Bank which has a Best Practice Checklist area.  Each checklist is designed to help you walk through all aspects of data protection.
The checklist will give you an insight about where your organisation is with data protection from a data privacy and technical security perspective. The checklists form part of the Best Practice library which includes contextualised guidance, documents and resources on specific areas of data processing.  The checklists form part of the ICO Accountability Framework which helps organisations with their governance and corporate risk management where it relates to data protection.    The checklists cover all aspects of the framework, enabling you to assess against organisation baselines:

1. Leadership & Oversight
2. Risk Management (DPIA's)
3. Policies & Procedures
4. Individual Rights
5. Contracts & Data Sharing
6. Transparency
7. Training & Awareness
8. Records Management
9. Monitoring Verification & Reporting (Data Breaches, SARs and FOI's)
10. Response & Enforcement (SARs and FOI's)

Redaction

The  Redaction Checklist guidelines about redaction, primarily for use in Subject Access Requests..  It links in with the Redaction Best Practice Area which gives help and guidance for reference when removing content from data provided under a request for information such as a Subject Access Request (SAR).  There are template policies, procedures and response letters.  Our customers also have access to a free redaction tool which is designed to work with pdf documents of up to 25 pages: Document Redaction Tool.  If you are struggling with redacting a large Subject Access Request we can provide a redaction service for a small charge, please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Answer a sample Redaction checklist question:

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DPE customers can get started on completing the Redaction checklist here: