From GDPR improvement programme to long-term outsourced DPO partnership

Banham Group's businesses include Banham Patent Locks, Banham Security and Banham Academy. The retained service supports privacy and data-protection governance across these different operating contexts.

The work needed to be clear and commercially useful enough to support management decision-making, rather than simply producing a technical compliance report.

Establish the organisation's current GDPR position, identify and prioritise areas requiring remediation, provide clear recommendations, develop a practical improvement plan and support implementation.

1. 01

   Assess

   Conducted a GDPR compliance gap analysis across the relevant Banham businesses, identifying existing strengths and areas requiring further attention: what is already working, what remains outstanding and what should happen next.

2. 02

   Prioritise

   Translated the findings into clear recommendations and an improvement plan, so identified issues could be addressed in a structured order rather than treated as equally urgent.

3. 03

   Implement

   Worked with Banham to help implement the improvement programme, moving beyond assessment into remediation.

4. 04

   Transition to outsourced DPO

   Following the initial programme, Banham appointed IG-Smart as its outsourced Data Protection Officer — a relationship that has continued since 2020.

Engagement phases: Assess · Build · Manage · Assure · Improve

• GDPR gap-analysis report
• Recommendations
• Improvement plan
• Implementation support
• Retained DPO advice

Relevant to organisations seeking an outsourced DPO that begins with an independent GDPR assessment, helps implement the improvements and then provides continuing, accessible specialist advice.

Further evidence can be discussed subject to confidentiality and client permissions.