Our history
In October 2003, the then NHS Information Authority announced a new national organisation specifically for Caldicott Guardians working in health and social care. Following the announcement a small group of guardians from health and social care organisations worked on a constitution for the national group, which launched in 2005 as the United Kingdom Council of Caldicott Guardians, under the chairmanship of Stephen Hinde, then Caldicott Guardian for BUPA.
At its inauguration, the Council was sponsored by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Subsequently its sponsors were NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), which later became the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), then NHS Digital.
Since 2015, the Council has been under the wing of the National Data Guardian (NDG), and is presently a subgroup of the National Data Guardian's Panel.