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UK Data Protection Awareness Training
Give your team the confidence to handle personal data responsibly, recognise rights requests and report suspected breaches.
12 lessons · Approximately 85 minutes · Online and self-paced
Practical data protection for everyday work
Who is this course for?
Employees, contractors, temporary staff and volunteers who handle personal data in routine work. No specialist data protection knowledge is required.
What does the course cover?
Learn through familiar situations involving customer records, staff information, email disclosures, supplier access and suspected breaches. The course covers UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and relevant workplace changes under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.
Learners are prompted to follow their organisation’s approved policies and use the correct privacy contacts and reporting routes.
YOUR TRAINING PACKAGE
Course fees
£10.00
One named learner · No VAT
12-month licence: All paid awareness course licences are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. All places in a team package share the same expiry date. Allocating a learner later does not extend the licence.
Up to 10 learners: £85.00
No VAT
Up to 100 learners: £795.00
No VAT
Buy team places first and allocate them after payment is confirmed. Each learner uses one licence; completed places cannot be reused.
Course at a glance
✓ 12 practical lessons
✓ Approximately 85 minutes
✓ Short videos and knowledge checks
✓ Course notes and full transcripts
✓ Certificate after passing
✓ 12-month refresher date
What is the course curriculum?
Work through 12 focused lessons with short narrated videos, English captions, workplace examples, interactive activities and knowledge checks. Select a lesson below to explore its learning outcome.
Lesson 1 — Introduction to UK data protection
Understand your personal responsibilities and where to obtain advice.
Lesson 2 — Understanding personal data
Recognise personal data, sensitive records and identifying information in everyday work.
Lesson 3 — The data protection principles
Use the principles to question and improve an everyday information-handling activity.
Lesson 4 — Lawful processing and consent
Follow authorised purposes and recognise when lawful-basis or sensitive-data advice is needed.
Lesson 5 — Collecting and using information appropriately
Collect necessary, accurate information and write records that can be justified.
Lesson 6 — Sharing and disclosing information
Check authority, identity, recipient and method before disclosing personal data.
Lesson 7 — Keeping information secure
Protect personal data through account, device, paper and communication habits.
Lesson 8 — Retention and secure disposal
Follow the retention schedule and dispose of information without defeating a hold.
Lesson 9 — Individual rights and complaints
Recognise informal requests and complaints, and escalate them under the correct process.
Lesson 10 — Personal data breaches
Recognise, contain and report a suspected personal data breach immediately.
Lesson 11 — Suppliers cloud services and international transfers
Obtain approval before new supplier access, cloud use or overseas disclosure.
Lesson 12 — Privacy by design and responsible AI
Recognise projects and automated decisions that need privacy review before implementation.
Assessment and completion
The final assessment contains 20 questions. The pass mark is 80%: at least 16 correct answers. Learners can review the lessons and retake the assessment until they pass. Progress is saved so they can leave and return.
Course notes and certificate
Each learner can download the course notes, including video transcripts and worked examples. A completion certificate is available after all lessons are complete and the assessment is passed. The certificate shows a refresher date 12 months after passing. This refresher date does not extend the licence, which expires 12 months after purchase.
Completed-course notes and certificate downloads remain available in the learner’s learning library.
Our courses
- UK Data Protection Awareness Training ↗
- EU Data Protection Awareness Training ↗
- Information Security Awareness Training ↗
- Data Protection Officer Course ↗
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Easy enrolment
Select Enrol today to open the matching live course in the Training Centre in a new tab or window. Choose an individual licence or a team package, enter your booking details and complete the secure payment steps.
- Individual booking: provide the learner’s name and email when booking.
- Team packages: purchase up to 10 or up to 100 places, then allocate learners through your private booking page after payment confirmation.
- Learning access: each learner verifies their own email address. Invitations and access follow confirmed payment.
- Licence capacity: once all purchased places have been allocated, additional learners cannot join using that purchase.
Your licence expires 12 months after the date of purchase. Allocate places and complete the course within that period. Completion does not release a place for reuse. Downloadable completion resources remain available afterwards.
Multiple-user purchases: Use your private booking page to view learner progress, completion dates and refresher dates, and download a learner report as a CSV file. Single-user purchases do not include this manager report.
Additional information
This is awareness training to help people make safer everyday decisions. Your organisation’s policies and specialist advice remain important when a situation requires further assessment.
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