It's a Lib Dem amendment, and as it would be contrary to the general drive towards autonomy for schools in UK-minus-Scotland, I doubt it will go through. Jon Baines, Chair, nadpo.co.uk > On 9 Jan 2018, at 11:33, Lynn Wyeth <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear all > > There is apparently a proposal for an amendment in the DP Bill under 87A as follows: > > After Clause 26 > LORD CLEMENT-JONES > LORD STOREY > 87A Insert the following new Clause— > “Data protection officer: schools > Where a school maintained by a local authority is unable to designate a data > protection officer, the relevant local authority must designate a data protection > officer for that school or any group of schools maintained by that local > authority.” > > If it went through, do you think that as it says must, we would have to do it for free as part of our legal obligation rather than charging schools under a traded service as we do now for DP support? > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > All archives of messages are stored permanently and are > available to the world wide web community at large at > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html > If you wish to leave this list please send the command > leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] > All user commands can be found at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/subscribercommands.html > Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner > [log in to unmask] > Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs > To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: > SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] > (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/subscribercommands.html Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^