GB Rotherham Council Oct 2015 Physical Action (Q16286)
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A data breach risk event
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| English | GB Rotherham Council Oct 2015 Physical Action |
A data breach risk event |
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October 2015
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Rotherham Council bosses decided to keep secret details of laptop thefts from their offices - despite being aware that significant amounts of confidential information relating to a child abuse investigation and young people in care had been lost. New information has now been made public about the theft of 21 laptops taken from the councils Norfolk House offices on the night of October 26, 2011, by someone with apparent access to the building. The ICOs Freedom of Information has released copies of letters sent between it and Rotherham Council in relation to the matter, as well as some partially-redacted internal council emails. They reveal that within a week of the theft, director of safeguarding and corporate parenting services Howard Woolfenden and childrens services boss Joyce Thacker w (English)
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