Guides
Written guides, not gated PDFs. Nothing here asks for your email address, and nothing here claims a product makes you compliant.
Not for the download
Most ‘free guides’ in this market are a form in front of four pages of product copy. These are just pages. If they help, use them.
CCTV laws for schools
What the law actually requires of a school running cameras: lawful basis, DPIA, signage, retention, subject access and the places a camera must never go.
GuideDPIAs and retention for school CCTV
How long to keep footage, how to decide, who should be able to look, and what a school DPIA needs to cover.
GuideVape detection in school toilets
How sensors work, what they cannot prove, and how to deploy them in the most privacy-sensitive space in the building.
GuideWriting a school lockdown procedure
A procedure that works when the person who wrote it is the person dealing with the incident.
ChecklistMartyn’s Law checklist for schools
One page. What to settle before commencement, in order, and most of it costs nothing.
ChecklistQuestions to ask a security supplier
Eighteen questions, including five that will make a supplier uncomfortable. Use them on us.
Sources worth reading directly
- Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025: statutory guidance (Home Office)
- Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025: overarching factsheet (Home Office)
- Understanding Martyn's Law and the SIA's role as regulator
- How Martyn's Law will affect education settings (Department for Education)
- ProtectUK — Martyn's Law
- ICO — video surveillance guidance
- ICO — data protection impact assessments
- Keeping children safe in education (DfE)
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