Right now, across the UK social housing sector, a troubling pattern is emerging; the over-collection and under-use of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) data. Tenants are being asked to hand over intimate details – ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,…
While it’s always encouraging to see the social housing sector embrace data protection, it’s disheartening to see the image used on an article in Social Housing magazine on Data Protection Day 2025 is the same old padlock, and – more…
The local authority has requested named and detailed support plans for all residents, plus details of all interactions between the staff and the victims of abuse. Details that would disclose highly sensitive information, and special categories of personal data, about women and children who may well be living in fear for their lives...
It really is starting to feel like I've wandered into a dystopian film or novel where privacy and data protection have no meaning, and hardly anyone but me gives a damn.
More organisations are talking about supporting colleagues through menopause, which I believe is mostly a positive move, but I am worried that some of the support will inadvertently lead to privacy breaches, which I’ll explain below. So I pulled together…
Hitting perimenopause in my early 40s, with young children, has been a shock to my system! In this video I share some ideas I’ve gathered from my research into supporting menopause, added to my data protection expertise, to highlight some…
With National Inclusion Week 2022 coming to a close, what will your organisation continue to do to support inclusion in the workplace? Thoughts often turn to workshops, diversity champions, EDI statistics (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), and so on. These require…
