An intensive one-day course covering the key concepts and benefits of data quality and data sharing;  risk and risk management, and both incremental and strategic options for its improvement.

Data quality and data sharing are issues that should underpin just about everything that a public sector organisation does. Data quality and data sharing are essential for service delivery, for providing information and advice, and for decision making. Without good quality data, an organisation cannot properly understand whether transformation and efficiency projects are delivering real benefits, or whether they are simply shifting costs and problems to other areas.

This course is an overview of Information Assurance designed to to help you navigate and interpret the many different reporting regimes that have been brought to bear on the public sector as a result of a disappointing roll call of data breaches during the past couple of years.

Local Government has already been busy achieving Code of Connection CoCo Compliance and it is important to re-harness these and other related efforts. This course will seek to help you to tackle the barriers to achieving best practice, providing strategies for putting the various pieces together.