Government to hire GDPR contractors for mother and baby homes fallout

The tender states that consideration is required as to whether the release of personal data could prejudice the effective operation of future commissions of inquiry and the cooperation of witnesses.

The Government is to hire external data-protection specialists to provide advice on requests for access to personal records from mother and baby home survivors.

The Department of Children has published a tender seeking external contractors to provide expert advice on GDPR and subject access requests (SARs) from survivors.