June

We’re pleased to confirm a price drop for basic and standard level criminal checks in Northern Ireland (via AccessNI). On 1st June, the price of both checks reduced by £8.

AccessNI has also confirmed that from the 3^rd June they will recommence requesting criminal record information from Poland and Romania if either of these is the applicant’s country of origin and they have applied to undertake work involving regulated activity with children in Northern Ireland.

The United Kingdom’s ICO has released a report, “GDPR: One Year On,” that discusses the impact of the GDPR one year following its implementation.

The report provides insight into the enforcement practices, EU-wide cooperation, support functions, innovative practices and further growth plans of the ICO. The GDPR has resulted in approximately 14,000 reported incidents in the past year. Only 0.5% of those reported data breaches led the ICO to impose either an improvement plan or a civil monetary penalty. The health sector is responsible for a higher number of breach reports and data protection concerns, accounting for 16% and 7%, respectively.