Personal Data Protection Training
Practical, tailored data protection training helps your team understand their responsibilities and make better decisions when handling personal data.
CSRB delivers personal data protection and UK GDPR training to organisations across the UK, both in person and live online. With our MD and certified Data Protection Officer Chris Burn based in Bristol, we are particularly well placed to provide face-to-face data protection training for organisations across Bristol and the South West.
Every course is tailored to your organisation, your people and the personal data they actually work with. Training is delivered by certified Data Protection Officers (DPOs), combining regulatory knowledge with practical, real-world experience.
With awareness comes acceptance from your team and other internal and external stakeholders. CSRB is a specialist in personal data protection training.
How Do We Deliver Our Personal Data Protection Training Courses?
We deliver bespoke and tailored data protection training in person across the UK and live online.
Face-to-face training gives teams the opportunity to learn together, discuss real situations and ask questions specific to their roles and organisation. With Chris now based in Bristol, in-person training is readily available for organisations across Bristol and the South West, as well as being delivered to clients elsewhere in the UK.
For organisations with remote, hybrid or geographically dispersed teams, our live online GDPR and data protection training provides the same tailored approach without requiring everyone to be in the same place.
All sessions are led by our certified Data Protection Officers (DPOs), with the content adapted to your sector, organisation and training objectives.
Why Consider Data Protection and UK GDPR Training?
Good data protection training should do more than tell your employees what GDPR stands for.
It should help people understand how data protection applies to the decisions they make every day and give them the confidence to recognise risks before they become problems.
Our training helps organisations build a stronger culture of data protection while supporting compliance, reducing risk and improving the way personal data is handled throughout the business.
- Build a stronger data privacy culture: Regular training keeps data protection front of mind and helps your team understand the part they play in protecting personal data. When people understand why good data protection matters, it becomes part of everyday working practices rather than simply another compliance exercise.
- Supporting organisational growth: As your organisation grows, you are likely to employ more people, introduce new systems and suppliers, process more personal data and change the way that information moves through the business. Training helps your team understand the risks that come with that growth and the safeguards needed to manage them.
- Protect commercial relationships: Data protection increasingly forms part of client, employee and supplier due diligence. Demonstrating that your people understand their responsibilities can help build trust during onboarding, procurement and ongoing commercial relationships.
- Understand your compliance responsibilities: Organisations have accountability obligations under UK data protection legislation. Training helps your team understand the responsibilities relevant to their roles, rather than expecting them to interpret complex regulatory guidance themselves.
- Keep pace with change: ata protection does not stand still. Regulation, ICO guidance, technology and the ways organisations use personal data continue to evolve. Regular training helps your people keep their knowledge current and understand how changes affect their day-to-day responsibilities.
What Types Of Personal Data Protection Training Do We Provide?
There is no point delivering the same generic GDPR presentation to every organisation.
Before delivering training, we arrange a complimentary online training review to understand your organisation, your audience and what you actually need people to know. We can then tailor the content, format and level of detail accordingly.
Our data protection training includes:
- All Employee Training – one of our most popular courses. This gives employees a practical understanding of data protection and how it applies to their everyday roles. We can train teams of different sizes and deliver multiple sessions where needed to support business continuity or accommodate different working patterns and time zones.
- New Starter Induction Training – introduces data protection responsibilities from the beginning of the employee relationship. This can help new starters understand how they are expected to handle personal data while also demonstrating how their own information is protected by the organisation.
- Key Role Training – tailored training for business owners, senior leaders and individuals with specific responsibility for data protection. This can include training for a Senior Responsible Individual (SRI) or people developing towards a Data Protection Officer (DPO) role.
- Privacy Topic-Specific Training – focused training on the data protection issues your team actually encounters. This could include managing Subject Access Requests (SARs), personal data breach response, direct marketing and consent, data controller responsibilities or another specific area of data privacy.
Training can be delivered in person anywhere in the UK or live online, with face-to-face training particularly accessible to organisations in Bristol and across the South West.
What If My Industry Has Specific Privacy Requirements?
Different sectors handle different types of personal data and face different risks. That is why we tailor our training rather than relying on an off-the-shelf GDPR course. CSRB has particular experience delivering data protection support and training in sectors including:
Occupational Health
Occupational health providers process significant volumes of health information and other sensitive personal data.
Our training helps employees understand their data protection responsibilities and the commercial and regulatory consequences of poor data handling. It can also help organisations embed privacy into client onboarding, demonstrate strong data governance and build trust with the organisations that rely on their services.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Organisations developing or using AI face rapidly evolving questions around privacy, transparency, governance and the use of personal data.
Training can help teams understand data protection considerations around areas such as automated decision-making, profiling, data quality, accountability and security, as well as the implications of changing regulatory guidance.
For organisations operating internationally, training can also be tailored to reflect relevant requirements affecting the markets in which they provide their services.
Owner-Managed and Micro Businesses
Smaller businesses rarely have somebody whose only job is data protection.
Our training is therefore designed to make data privacy understandable and useful. We cut through unnecessary jargon, explain what matters to your organisation and give your team practical actions they can apply when they return to work.
Training is available in person across the UK or live online.
In-Person Data Protection Training in Bristol
Sometimes training simply works better when everybody is in the room.
CSRB provides in-person GDPR and data protection training across the UK. With our MD and certified DPO Chris Burn based in Bristol, we are particularly well placed to deliver face-to-face training for businesses and organisations across Bristol and the South West.
Sessions can be tailored to different audiences, from company-wide data protection awareness training to focused workshops for leadership teams, HR professionals or employees with particular responsibility for personal data.
Because the training is built around your organisation rather than a generic slide deck, your team can discuss the situations they actually encounter, ask questions and understand how good data protection practice applies to their roles.
If your organisation is based in or around Bristol and you would prefer face-to-face data protection training, talk to us about what you need.
Not based in Bristol? No problem. We deliver in-person training for organisations across the UK, as well as live online sessions for remote and geographically dispersed teams.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who delivers CSRB’s training courses?
Every CSRB data protection training session is delivered by a certified data protection professional. Training is tailored to your organisation and can include sector-specific examples and guidance relevant to the roles of the people attending.
Is the training suitable for SMEs?
Yes. CSRB works with small and medium-sized organisations as well as larger teams. Training can be adapted to your organisation’s size, existing level of data protection knowledge and the types of personal data you handle.
Can you customise the training to our organisation?
Yes. In fact, we prefer to.
We start with a complimentary online training review to understand your organisation, audience and objectives. We can then tailor the training around the situations, responsibilities and data protection risks that are relevant to your team.
Do you offer training for Subject Access Requests and breaches?
Yes. CSRB provides topic-specific training covering areas including Subject Access Requests (SARs), personal data breach management and response, direct marketing, consent and data controller responsibilities.
Training can be tailored to the people who are most likely to encounter or manage these situations within your organisation.
Do you provide in-person GDPR training in Bristol?
Yes. With our MD and certified DPO Chris Burn based in Bristol, CSRB provides in-person data protection and UK GDPR training for organisations throughout Bristol and the South West.
We can deliver company-wide awareness sessions or more focused training for particular teams, senior leaders or employees with specific data protection responsibilities.
Do you provide in-person data protection training outside Bristol?
Yes. CSRB provides face-to-face data protection and GDPR training to organisations across the UK. Bristol is our base, rather than the limit of our in-person training service.
Contact us to discuss your location, team and training requirements.
We can deliver company-wide awareness sessions or more focused training for particular teams, senior leaders or employees with specific data protection responsibilities.
Do you offer online GDPR training?
Yes. Live online data protection training is available to organisations throughout the UK and is particularly useful for remote, hybrid and geographically dispersed teams.
The training is still tailored to your organisation rather than being a generic pre-recorded GDPR course.
How do I book a training session?
Contact CSRB to arrange a complimentary online training review. We will discuss your organisation, who needs training, the topics you want to cover and whether you would prefer the session to be delivered online or in person.
Ready to Train Your Team in Data Protection?
Whether you need company-wide GDPR awareness training, specialist training for a particular team or topic, or face-to-face data protection training, we can build the course around your organisation.
CSRB provides in-person data protection training throughout the UK and live online training nationwide, with Chris ideally located to support organisations looking for a data protection trainer in Bristol and across the South West.
All CSRB training is delivered by certified data protection professionals and tailored to the people in the room.