Appropriate Policy Document As part of SOAS’s public function as a higher education provider, we process Special Category and Criminal Offence data in accordance with Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act (2018) (DPA).
Records retention and disposal An essential part of good records management is ensuring that records, as important snap-shots of our decision-making and activities, are retained only for as long as they have value to the organisation, and that this decision-making process is documented.