Policies and procedures
View the ICO's policies, and procedures we follow when delivering our services and responsibilities.
Policies
- Accidents and First Aid Policy
- Adoption leave policy
- Annual leave (buying, selling and banking)
- Appraisal and Selection Policy
- Business Continuity Management Policy Statement
- CCTV policy
- Communicating our Regulatory and Enforcement Activity
- Consultation policy
- Counter fraud policy
- Data protection policy
- Declaration of interests
- Development review/objective setting
- Digital document accessibility guidance
- Dignity at work
- Disciplinary
- Disclosure of information about ICO employees
- Disclosure of information about ICO employees - accessible version
- Driving policy
- Electricity and electrical equipment policy
- Environmental policy
- Equality, diversity and inclusion Policy
- Excess fares policy
- Expectant and new mother risk assessment procedure
- Flexible working
- FOI-EIR casework guide hub
- FOI Regulatory Manual
- Gifts and hospitality policy and procedure
- Grievance
- Health and safety
- Infectious diseases and office attendance guidance
- Information management policy
- Internal AI use
- Managing sickness absence
- Managing performance
- Maintaining health and safety policy
- Maternity leave
- Menopause policy
- Modern Slavery statement
- Neonatal care leave policy
- Noise at work policy
- Overtime
- Parental leave
- Paternity leave
- Pay
- PDR guidance for people managers
- PDR guidance for staff
- Pensions
- Period of notice
- Personal data sharing policy
- Personnel Security and National Security Vetting policy
- Political activity
- Probationary period
- Procurement and contract management - this is the current policy, and any confirmed changes will be updated on the link
- Prosecution policy statement
- Qualifications request policy
- Reasonable adjustments policy
- Recruitment and Selection Policy
- Regulatory action policy
- Regulatory approach ICO25
- Regulatory Policy Methodology
- Retention and disposal policy
- Right to review scheme for victims of crime
- Risk assessment and safety checks policy
- Risk management policy and risk appetite statement
- Secondary Carer Leave And Pay Policy
- Senior Leaders conflict of interest policy
- Shared parental leave
- Smoking policy
- Social media policy
- Speaking engagements
- Special leave
- Sponsorship policy
- Staff privacy notice
- Storage policy
- Temporary Appointment and Secondment Policy
- Third party collaboration policy
- Trans policy
- Travel and subsistence
- Unreasonably persistent and unacceptable behaviour policy
- Version and Document Control Policy
- Website retention policy
- Whistleblowing
Procedures
- Code of conduct (for management and staff)
- Complaints guide for public authorities
- Data Protection fining guidance
- Public sector approach
- Requests for information held by the ICO: our review procedure