Breakthrough Communications Blog

Data protection should not be something you add on at the end. It should shape how your service is designed from the start.

For many parish and town councils, communication can sometimes end up being reactive. With constraints on time and resource, communication tends to focus on specific tasks, such as sharing an update or sending a newsletter and then moving on to the next task. Effective communication needs direction, and an overarching, council-shaped strategy. Without a clear approach, it's easy for activity to become inconsistent, messages to be missed, and effort to have limited impact. Thi

Parish and town councils are currently focusing a great deal of attention on Assertion 10 of the Annual Governance Statement. This new assertion requires councils to confirm that they have proper arrangements in place in relation to several distinct areas of council digital and data governance. The Practitioners’ Guide explains that this includes data protection, web accessibility, the use of a compliant domain and appropriate IT controls and policies . In relation to data pr