City council complies with enforcement notice issued by ICO

The Information Commissioner’s Office has welcomed the actions taken by Wolverhampton City Council to meet the demands of an enforcement notice to give all staff data protection training.

 

In May the watchdog required the local authority to provide the training within 50 days.

The notice was served after the ICO found a “startling” lack of urgency in the council acting on a series of warnings given over the previous two years.

The watchdog acted after confidential and highly sensitive data was disclosed in error by a social worker to a sibling who had no right to see that information. The social worker concerned had received no data protection training.

The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said: “We are pleased that Wolverhampton City Council has now provided adequate data protection training to all of their staff.

“It is important that the council maintains these practices going forward to make sure residents’ information is handled correctly and kept secure.”