11 March 2020

The Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton, has confirmed that 9 further patients in Wales have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID -19). 2 of the patients have recently returned together from northern Italy, and are resident in the Carmarthenshire local authority area. The other 7 patients were tested following tracing in connection with…

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued two reprimands, or legal warnings, to schools for wrongly disclosing the personal data of children. The actions were revealed in a blog entry from the watchdog’s Head of Data Protection Complaints, Andy Laing. He said that in the first case a class photograph, sent to a local newspaper by a Cheshire…