Data controllers have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect sensitive data. To keep data safe when it is used for research, data controllers often store public sector data in secure locations known as Trusted Research Environments (TREs): secure physical or digital environments which can only be accessed by approved researchers.
This webpage provides information about TREs and their advantages and contains a video which explains how TREs keep data safe. The page also contains information on the Five Safes framework as well as examples of TREs.
Supporting PEDRI’s Good Practice Standard 2: Data literacy and training.