Is Your Practice Handling Payroll Data Safely?
Accounting practices hold some of the most sensitive data their clients own — National Insurance numbers, bank details, salaries and tax records — and the cost of getting protection wrong is rising fast. This UK GDPR checklist helps your practice spot the gaps before they become breaches, penalties, or reputational damage.
- A practical self-audit: work through nine plain-English checks covering data storage, access controls, MFA, encryption, secure sharing, retention and breach response.
- Built around UK GDPR obligations: including the ICO’s 72-hour breach reporting rule and the duty to vet third-party providers with proper Data Processing Agreements.
- Risk that scales with volume: the more client payrolls you run, the greater your exposure — so the checklist is designed for multi-client practices, not single employers.
- A lighter path forward: see how outsourcing payroll to a partner with established security controls can reduce compliance pressure while you keep scaling.