Senior Leadership Training
Senior leaders in education and the public sector carry strategic accountability for how their organisations manage information governance, data protection, and cyber security. Regulatory scrutiny has intensified, and the questions arriving at Board and executive level are increasingly technical, increasingly consequential, and increasingly difficult to answer with confidence.
Clark & Company delivers training designed for the people who make and defend those decisions. This group is designed for Vice-Chancellors, Principals, Headteachers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Executives, governors, and their direct leadership teams.
Programmes are scenario-based and governance-focused. They are built to equip senior leaders to govern these issues credibly, not to turn them into practitioners.
Data Protection Accountability for Senior Leaders
Audience: For Vice-Chancellors, Headteachers, Chief Executives, and executive leadership teams
Data protection is a governance issue, not just a legal challenge that can be addressed with support from IT. This course equips senior leaders to discharge their accountability under UK GDPR with confidence, focusing on the decisions, escalations, and Board-level oversight that sit above the practitioner layer.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the scope and limits of your personal accountability under UK GDPR
- Recognise the decisions that must sit at executive or Board level and those that should not
- Lead your organisation through a serious data protection incident or regulatory contact
| Format | Published Price |
|---|---|
| Online (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £950 + VAT |
| On-site (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £1,200 + VAT |
Data Protection for Governors
Audience: For school governors, trust boards, and non-executive directors
Governors and non-executive directors provide the scrutiny that regulators expect organisations to have in place. This course gives governing bodies the shared baseline they need to ask informed questions, challenge management responses, and satisfy themselves that data protection is being handled properly.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the governing body’s role in data protection oversight
- Identify the information and assurance that should be coming to your board
- Recognise the warning signs of data protection failure before they become incidents
| Format | Published Price |
|---|---|
| Online (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £950 + VAT |
| On-site (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £1,200 + VAT |
Cyber Security for Senior Leaders
For executive leadership teams and those with Board-level responsibility for cyber risk
Cyber security is now a standing item for most Boards. This course cuts through the technical language and equips senior leaders to understand their cyber risk position, interrogate the assurance they receive, and lead their organisation through an incident.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand cyber risk in terms that support governance and investment decisions
- Interpret the technical reporting that reaches executive level without getting lost in it
- Lead your organisation through a cyber incident from discovery to recovery
| Format | Published Price |
|---|---|
| Online (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £950 + VAT |
| On-site (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £1,200 + VAT |
FOI for Senior Leaders
For senior leaders in universities, further education colleges, schools, local authorities, and other public bodies
Freedom of information is a routine compliance function until it becomes a reputational issue. This course equips senior leaders to understand where the decisions sit, when they should be escalated, and how to handle the politically sensitive or media-adjacent requests that benefit from leadership involvement.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand your organisation’s obligations under FOIA and the EIR
- Recognise the requests that should reach leadership and the decisions that carry reputational risk
- Handle the interface with the ICO and with requesters when a disclosure decision is contested
| Format | Published Price |
|---|---|
| Online (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £950 + VAT |
| On-site (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £1,200 + VAT |
Understanding the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
For executive leadership teams in organisations that fall, or may fall, within the expanded regulatory perimeter created by the incoming Cyber Security & Resilience Bill
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill materially expands the set of organisations that are within scope of UK cyber security and resilience regulation. This course explains what the Bill does, who it affects, and what senior leaders should be doing now to prepare, regardless of whether final scope has been confirmed for their organisation.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the purpose and structure of the Bill and its relationship to the NIS Regulations
- Assess whether your organisation is likely to fall within scope
- Identify the governance, investment, and assurance decisions that should be in hand before the Bill is in force
| Format | Published Price |
|---|---|
| Online (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £950 + VAT |
| On-site (Per cohort, up to 20 delegates) | £1,200 + VAT |
Bespoke programmes and multi-session packages are available on enquiry. Group A programmes are often delivered as a linked set to executive teams and governing bodies.
| Course | Format | Online | On-site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Protection Accountability for Senior Leaders | Per cohort (up to 20) | £950 + VAT | £1,200 + VAT |
| Data Protection for Governors | Per cohort (up to 20) | £950 + VAT | £1,200 + VAT |
| Cyber Security for Senior Leaders | Per cohort (up to 20) | £950 + VAT | £1,200 + VAT |
| FOI for Senior Leaders | Per cohort (up to 20) | £950 + VAT | £1,200 + VAT |
| Understanding the Cyber Security & Resilience Bill | Per cohort (up to 20) | £950 + VAT | £1,200 + VAT |