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Information governance incident management

Recording, investigating, and learning from data breaches and near misses, and deciding when to tell regulators and the people affected.

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Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • recognise a data breach or near miss and report it straight away
2. Working

You can:

  • log incidents and gather the facts
  • assess incidents against the organisation's severity criteria
  • track actions to close
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • investigate serious incidents and find their root causes
  • decide, with senior colleagues, whether to notify regulators and people affected
  • share lessons and track improvements
4. Expert

You can:

  • set the incident management process for information governance
  • lead the response to major breaches, including with regulators and the media
  • report incident trends and risks to the board

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Deputy data protection officerData protection officer8aPractitioner
Data protection officerData protection officer8bExpert
Senior records officerHealth records officer4Working
Information governance officerInformation governance officer4Working
Senior information governance officerInformation governance officer5Working
Information governance leadInformation governance officer6Practitioner
Information governance managerInformation governance officer7Practitioner