The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new piece of legislation that came into effect in May this year. It is new to everyone and will have an impact on almost every organisation, charity, and PCC. Each diocese is working on how to support Cathedrals, DBF offices and parishes, and will be doing various things to achieve compliance.
There are range of documents that you will find helpful in preparing for, and setting up your GDPR work. This page is the central resource for GDPR for us in Gloucester Diocese.
Step 1: Resources, fact sheets and templates.
Please read through the resources below and complete your data audit checklist, which will help you identify any questions and concerns.
2. Parish Resources GDPR hub: click here to visit the hub for national resources
2a: Guides from Parish Resources
Parish guide to GDPR – Click here for the detailed guide
Brief guide to Data Protection for PCC members – Click here
2b: Templates from Parish Resources
Gaining Consent templates – parishresources.org.uk/gdpr/consent
Data audit checklist templates – parishresources.org.uk/gdpr/dataaudit
Privacy templates – parishresources.org.uk/gdpr/privacy
Once you have worked through these resources and identified any questions, please check our frequently asked questions section below.
Step 2: Frequently Asked Questions
Check whether your questions have been answered on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
From 1 February we set up a ku.gr1714600575o.coi1714600575dsolg1714600575@rpdg1714600575 email account for very general parish based enquiries (ie not parish specific) – as things progress please do email us your questions and each Friday morning we will compile an updated FAQ and publish them here, with a generic mix of the most frequently asked questions, and highlight them on the diocesan website as a further way of people checking things out.
GDPR – key messages PowerPoint
Step 3: GDPR helpline
We have set up a helpline with our legal advisers VWV, (funded by the Diocesan Board of Finance) for parish specific enquiries that you may have from working through your checklists and templates. We will confirm the helpline telephone number very soon. Each parish is eligible to one hour of dedicated GDPR legal advice from one of the team there. (The hour may be cumulative too as you may have several questions over a period of time). Before calling VWV, we would ask that you have completed Step 1 and Step 2. VWV will be able to advise you on any questions specific to your setting.
Other information
As things progress and dioceses offer information and guidance we will add anything directly here that might be of interest. London Diocese also has a resource that you might find helpful.
ICO: An Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
