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GDS Analytics data protection specialists

Data protection delivered intelligently

Fractional Data Protection Officer and Chief Information Security Officer support for independent schools, charities and commercial businesses, from a named adviser who learns how your organisation works.
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For independent schools
Marc Davies, Director of GDS Analytics
Marc Davies, Director
Named DPO and security adviser. CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CISMP
Trusted by schools since 2018
St Albans School
Haberdashers' Elstree Schools
Liverpool Experience Campus
For independent schools

Your school's named DPO and security adviser

An independent school holds safeguarding records, medical and SEN information and the financial details of every fee-paying family, without the local authority support that state schools can fall back on. We have been the named Data Protection Officer and security adviser to independent schools since UK GDPR came into force in 2018.
See how we support schools
Read our subject access guide

Named DPO

Policies, rights requests (including the contentious ones), DPIAs for EdTech and termly reports to governors.

Fractional CISO

Security strategy, the risk register, the DfE cyber security standards and insurer questionnaires.

Compliance and audit

UK GDPR health checks, gap analysis, Cyber Essentials readiness and data mapping.

Incident response

Containment, the 72-hour ICO decision, parent communications and lessons learned.
Who we help

Reducing your risk and protecting your data

Independent schools

A named DPO and fractional CISO who knows how schools work, from the bursary to the board.
Support for schools

Professional consultancy

Data protection and security leadership as a service for financial services, hospitality and retail, with compliance analysis, cyber security audits and UK and EU representation under Article 27.
Consultancy services

Training and monitoring

Security awareness and phishing training, AI phishing defence for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and dark web monitoring for exposed credentials.
Training and monitoring
What clients say
“
He knows our school, our history, and our risk appetite, so his advice is always grounded in our reality rather than generic guidance.
Rebecca Mitchell
Deputy Clerk to the Governors and Data Protection Manager, St Albans School
Guidance

Practical help with the hard parts

Our step-by-step guide covers deadlines, parents and pupils, safeguarding exemptions and the requests that arrive in the middle of a fee dispute or a separation, updated for the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.
How to handle a subject access request
What we offer
Data Protection Officer as a service
Chief Information Security Officer as a service
Compliance analysis and data mapping
Cyber security audit
UK and EU representation
Dark web monitoring
AI phishing defence and training
Subject access request guidance

Find out where you stand

A free, no-obligation 30-minute consultation on your current position, the questions your governors, board or insurers are asking, and the two or three things worth fixing first.
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0333 121 6772
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