Data protection is one of the most complex compliance disciplines in the UK and EU market. The GDPR has been in force since 2018 and organisations continue to fail audits, receive enforcement notices, and pay fines. The IAPP CIPP/E is the leading privacy certification but it is a 90-question multiple choice exam that tests legal knowledge recall, not the practical ability to conduct a DPIA, design a Records of Processing Activities framework, or advise a board on cross-border data transfer mechanisms. XPRI builds practitioners who can do the work.
Across five instructor-led days, participants build data protection practitioner capability across the complete privacy professional remit: UK GDPR and EU GDPR legal foundations and post-Brexit divergence, lawful basis analysis, data subject rights management, DPIA methodology, international data transfers and the post-Schrems II landscape, privacy by design and default, data breach response and ICO notification, processor and supplier management, and sector-specific requirements including NHS DSPT, financial services, and AI systems processing personal data.
On Day 5, participants conduct a complete DPIA for a complex AI-enabled data processing scenario and design a privacy governance structure. A senior practitioner assesses DPIA methodology, legal analysis quality, and governance framework design. XPRI certificate and Practitioner Assessment Report issued. Aligned with UK GDPR, EU GDPR, ICO Accountability Framework, EDPB guidelines, ISO 27701, PECR, NHS DSPT, and DORA data protection requirements.
