ety of individuals and damage your organisation’s reputation. Your responsibility as a data controller extends to those who have access to your organisation’s data where they are working on your behalf; for example, where external IT suppliers can remotely access your organisation’s information. The ‘Guide to data protection’ page provides further guidance and advice. It is vital that all staff with access to personal data understand the importance of: • protecting personal data • being familiar with your security policy • putting security procedures into practice As such, you should provide appropriate initial and refresher training for your staff. Version history Version Comments Date 1.0 Baseline version. October 2022 9 1. Introduction 1.0 Summary of main changes for 2023 to 2024 There are no new data items for the 2023 to 2024 children in need census collection. The value of collecting and publishing data on CIN plans has been reviewed and the department has taken the decision to continue to collect information on CIN plan dates. More information on CIN plans is provided in section 4.11. The information in the ‘Data protection and data sharing’ section has been updated in line with the latest UK General Data Protection Regulation guide. The validation rules have been reviewed and updated: • The following rules been changed to automatic ‘ok’ queries: 2991Q, 8530Q, 8535Q, 8775Q and 8825Q. • The following rules have been changed from errors to queries: 4009, 8525, 8555, 8569, 8863, 8873 and 8897. • The rules 8617 and 8899Q have been removed. Further information on the automatic validation checks is provided in section 1.9. Detailed information on all the changes to the validation rules is provided in the ‘Annex A - introduction’ tab of the accompanying validation rules