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DPO Foundation

Since 1 June 2025 the Personal Data Protection Act has required qualifying organisations to appoint a Data Protection Officer, and a great many of those appointments landed on someone who already had a full job. This foundation day is written for that person. It covers what the role is actually responsible for, what it is not, where the authority to say no comes from, and what the first ninety days should produce so that the appointment is more than a name filed with the Commissioner.

Programme Agenda

The Appointment and What Triggers It

Which controllers and processors fall inside the mandatory appointment requirement, notification to the Commissioner, and whether the role can be held internally, shared across group companies, or outsourced.

What the Role Covers, and What It Does Not

Advising, monitoring, and acting as contact point for the Commissioner and for data subjects. Where the DPO advises and where the business decides, and why blurring that line creates a conflict of interest.

Independence and Protection

Reporting lines that preserve independence, conflicts created by holding the role alongside IT or marketing responsibilities, resourcing, and access to senior management.

Building the Record of Processing

The first substantial deliverable. Identifying processing activities, purposes, categories of data and recipients, retention periods and transfer routes, using a method that survives staff turnover.

Handling Data Subject Requests

Access, correction, withdrawal of consent, and the data portability right introduced by the 2024 amendment. Verification, timelines, exemptions, and the response template that keeps handling consistent.

Breach Duties and the Clock

Assessing whether an incident is notifiable, notifying the Commissioner within 72 hours, notifying affected individuals within seven days where there is a risk of significant harm, and maintaining the breach register.

Working With Vendors and Processors

Due diligence before appointment, the terms that belong in a processing agreement, cross-border transfer considerations, and monitoring a processor after the contract is signed.

Your First Ninety Days

Participants build a dated plan: what to inventory, who to meet, which policy to write first, and what to put in front of management at day thirty, sixty and ninety.

Learning Outcomes:
Confirm whether your organisation is required to appoint a DPO and on what basis
State the boundaries of the role and recognise a conflict of interest in it
Establish reporting lines that preserve the independence the role needs
Build a record of processing activities that stays accurate over time
Handle access, correction and portability requests within the statutory timelines
Assess a breach against the notification threshold and meet the 72-hour and 7-day duties
Set processor obligations in contract and monitor them afterwards
Leave with a dated ninety day plan for the role

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Newly appointed Data Protection Officers, the compliance, legal, HR or IT managers who have been asked to take the role on, and the senior managers who will supervise it.

This is the one-day foundation: what the role is and how to start. The two-day practical programme goes into operating the function, including complex data subject requests, cross-border transfer design, vendor audits and building the regulator-facing evidence pack. Many participants take this day first and the practical programme within the following quarter.

No. The statutory requirements are introduced through the decisions a DPO has to make rather than through section references.

Yes, and it is central to the day. The mandatory appointment requirement, breach notification duties and the data portability right all come from the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024, with obligations effective from 1 June 2025.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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