Useful Documentation

NETconsent Briefing Documents

From time to time NETconsent issues summary sheets on particular topics relating to policy management issues. Here is a selection of our most recent briefing documents.

• Managing policies on your Intranet
• NETconsent verses Paper Policies
• Policy Management Issues for Local Government
• How NETconsent address policy mangement issues in local government
• Policy Management Issues for Business Organisations

Other Reference Material

This section provides you with access to useful documents published by third parties. NETconsent has found this material to be informative background reading.

Documents are relevant to most types of roles.

Audit (Compliance, Corporate Governance, Risk Management)
HR (employee communication, policy management)
IT (security)

• Cabinet Office data handling procedures across government
• ICO/Walport Review of Data sharing
• Kieran Poynter examination of HMRC losses
• Edmund Burton examinaton of MOD losses

• Open Report to Audit, Governance and Improvement Committee (Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council)

• UK legislation that organisations need to incorporate in their policies

• Internal Control - Guidance for directors on the Combined Code (The Turnbull Report) 
• Advice leaflet on internet & e:mail policies (ACAS)
• The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA)
• Security Breaches Survey 2002 (DTi)
• Information Security Breaches Survey 2002: Executive Summary (DTi)
• Monitoring at Work: Guidance for Small Business (Information Commissioner)
• The Employment Practices Data Protection Code. Part 3: Monitoring at Work (Information Commissioner)
• Briefing Notes on Digital Signatures and Electronic Documents
• Information Commissioner's Office - Guidance on data security breach management 

Useful Links

• British Standards Institute

• The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

• The Law Commission

• The Scottish Law Commission

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants

• Scottish Enterprise