Legal and ethical data considerations

Information about the people you support is often extremely sensitive and you have an obligation to record and handle it in a responsible way.

These guides aim to help you understand these responsibilities and to improve knowledge among your clients of how and why their data is being collected.

Data ethics guidance for services

This guidance covers developing data policies and procedures, data anonymisation, FAQs for staff and a checklist for informing clients  

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• Data ethics guidance for services and staff.zip | 363K

Data ethics guidance for clients

This guidance covers common questions from clients about how their data will be used, as well as template consent forms  

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• Data ethics client FAQs and consent forms.zip | 273K