NETconsent Documentation

Policy Management - What's it all about?

This section provides access to a wide variety of other useful documentation around the subject of policy management.

Briefing Documents

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

• Managing policies on your Intranet
• NETconsent verses Paper Policies
• Policy Management Issues for Local Government
• How NETconsent addresses policy mangement issues in local government
• Policy Management Issues for Business Organisations
• The gap between policy management theory and practice

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 relating to policy management.

• Open Report to Audit, Governance and Improvement Committee   (Wigan Council)
• Internal Control - Guidance for directors on the Combined Code   (The Turnbull Report)
• Information Security Breaches Survey 2008 (2008 BERR) Technical Report
• Information Security Breaches Survey 2008 (2008 BERR) Executive Summary
• Monitoring at Work: Guidance for Small Business (Information Commissioner)
• Guidance on electronic signatures (Feb 2009 BERR)
• Electronic Signatures  (Outlaw.com)
• Guidance on data security breach management (Information Commissioner)
• Independent Inquiry into the Colin Norris Incidents at Leeds Teaching
  Hospitals NHS Trust in 2002 (Independent Inquiry Team)

Legislation & Standards

Here is a list of legislation and standards that require organisations to implement a suitable policy & procedure system

• The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA)
• 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
• The Employment Practices Data Protection Code. Part 3: Monitoring at Work  (Information Commissioner)

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
• PCI Security Standards Council