UKBA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BOARD PAPER
Title: Information assurance refresher assessment (2011)
Paper Number: IM 11/09
To be presented By: <REDACTED>
Decisions required:
The Board are asked to:-
Agree the next steps to promote the uptake of the information assurance refresher
assessment which staff are required to pass by 31 January 2012.
Overview 1. The Cabinet Office requires all staff working for central government (including
temporary and agency staff) to take an annual assessment in information
assurance to demonstrate that they know how to keep personal and sensitive
information safe.
2. A new 20 minute assessment has been developed by Cabinet Office for use
across the civil service. The assessment has been made available to Home
Office staff, including those working for the UK Border Agency, on Discover, the
e-learning pages of Horizon. Staff were made aware of the requirement to take
the assessment via a Home Office news story on Horizon on 3 November.
Agency staff have also been reminded via a Frontier Fortnight briefing issued on
13 December and through the network of Information Advisers.
3. For staff unable to access Discover the assessment can be taken via the National
School of Government (NSG) website.
4. As at 2 December management information from Discover showed the following
uptake of the assessment:
Directorate
Headcount
Total completed Completed
Started
and started
Border Force
8321
2403
2068
335
Immigration
877
816
61
Group
8614
International
382*
13
12
1
Group
Enforcement
1963
129
115
14
HROD
614
165
151
14
RMG
795
124
116
8
Strategy and
135
25
20
5
Intelligence
Unknown
27
22
5
All UKBA
20824
3763
3320
443
*Excludes locally engaged staff, temporary worker abroad and staff loaned from our non-
activities
Additionally, the NSG figures show that 38 have completed the assessment and 123
are in progress. Of these 9 staff from UKBA (incl embassies) completed and 18 were
in progress.
Next Steps
With less than 16% of staff being shown to have passed the assessment the Board
are requested to write to directors of each strategic group, in the new year,
requesting that they inform staff of the requirement to take and pass the assessment
by 31 January 2012.
<REDACTED UNDER SECTION 40(2) (PERSONAL INFORMATION)>
UKBA Information Management Team
December 2011