Flexible and fast upscaling of your data protection resources – We provide trained and qualified team members to work within your organisation to support your data protection needs. We can place team members with you within 24 hours. There are no recruitment costs or minimum term commitments. You can end an engagement at any time without incurring further costs or penalty. 

Cost effective – Unbeatable value and realistic pricing for specialist support. Day rates for team members start from £240. Access to senior team members from our Data Protection and Cyber Security practice is also provided on a reduced rate card. 

Trained and qualified – Team members hold the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification (a recognised industry qualification) and have undergone specialist training covering typical BAU tasks that you might need them to perform.  

Quality assurance – Extend & Accelerate has been designed, deployed and is backed by DWF’s Data Protection and Cyber Security practice. DWF is recognised by the legal directories as a leading provider of data protection and cyber security services.

Extend & Accelerate offers seamless, rapid access to high-quality resources at competitive rates. You stay in control with the flexibility to pause or stop the service anytime- whether after a day, a week, a month or longer - paying only for the time you use. It's an affordable solution to try, with the potential to provide invaluable support when you need it most.

Massive technology upheaval and rapid legal developments in data create complex issues for businesses to address.

As organisations strive to adapt and innovate, they often need to extend their existing resources to accelerate their ability to take advantage of the opportunities that these developments present.    

At the same time, there are cost, time, and resource pressures. You may be asked to do more with less. You may find it challenging to find the right resource and skill set. 

For example, you might be impacted by any of the following:

• Undertaking programmes of work to address regulations and requirements relating to data, e-privacy and AI affecting your organisation or industry that require 'heavy lifting' and stakeholder coordination
• Needing to free up your senior in-house team members for more strategically important projects
• Rapid growth within your organisation adding projects to your workload faster than you can recruit
• Departure or extended absence of key people within your team
• Managing data subject access requests
• Dealing with a surge in activity following a data breach
• Supporting with integration activities following a merger or acquisition
• Preparing for audits and/or responding to audit findings

Whatever the driver may be within your business, if you need extra resources to manage a period of change, increased workload or instability, our Extend & Accelerate service can provide the flexibility and expertise to help.

Our Extend & Accelerate service offers you a cost-effective and resource enhancing solution. 

As part of this service, we can provide you with trained junior professionals on a competitive and realistic day-rate model, delivering scalable, flexible support that handles business-as-usual (BAU) tasks while allowing your senior team to focus on more complex or strategic issues.

Our Extend & Accelerate and team members are ready to provide short-, medium-, and long-term seconded support as an extension of your business. You can also choose to include options for senior support from our leading UK and Polish data protection practices.

Whatever data protection challenge you face, our Extend & Accelerate service gives you the flexibility to scale your team up or down according to your business needs. 

Extend & Accelerate consists of junior professionals from the UK and Poland who have all completed the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification and an intensive in-house training course delivered by our Data Protection & Cyber Security practice. Our training focuses on typical in-house data protection needs, drawn from practical experience, ensuring our team is equipped to handle your compliance challenges with precision and care.

Our junior professionals work directly with your team, and where necessary, they can escalate complex issues to senior privacy experts in the UK or Poland. This model ensures you receive the right level of expertise for every task, while keeping costs under control through reduced rate cards for senior support within agreed time limits each month.

Example tasks our team can handle

Our junior professionals manage BAU tasks, helping your senior team stay focused on high-priority and strategic initiatives. They can manage a wide range of data protection compliance activities, including:

• Managing your organisation's privacy mailbox, including handling incoming queries and triaging them to the right contacts within your organisation
• Gathering information and coordinating stakeholders for the completion of privacy assessments using your internal methodologies or platforms, such as OneTrust
• Gathering information and coordinating with key stakeholders to support you with developing a comprehensive documentation of data flows across your organisation
• Handling law enforcement requests, ensuring efficient and compliant responses in accordance with your playbooks
• Drafting privacy policies based on templates or precedents
• Gathering information for privacy notices and preparing drafts for senior-level review
• Supporting with responses to data subject access requests (both customer and employee facing), including reviewing documents to identify personal data and applying redactions
• Reviewing and amending data processing agreements in accordance with your playbooks
• Following your internal methodologies for transfer impact/risk assessments for international transfers of personal data
• Maintaining your intra-group data transfer agreements with updates to new entities and/or data transfer activities
• Maintaining ICO registrations and any sub-processor lists 
• Handling and responding to data protection due diligence questionnaires
• Supporting with the preparation of weekly data protection reports to senior management on KPIs and key risks