This guidance is aimed at records managers and financial managers in government. It covers the following categories of financial records: bank accounts, expenditures, ledgers, receipts and revenue, salaries and related documents, stores and services, other accountable financial documents.
This guidance describes eight common outcomes that if delivered will ensure the value of digital information, and the benefits of managing it, are realised.
Understanding what information to keep and disposing of information that is no longer needed is an important part of effective information management - these web pages offer an introduction.
This guidance is aimed at Heads of IT. It will help you to ensure all the component parts that make up your IT environment work together to maintain the digital continuity of your information.
Guidance on the immediate action to take to prevent mould growth or physical distortion if your documents, books or photographs are wet following an accident or flood
This piece of guidance focuses on understanding the information your organisation holds and how it needs to be used to support your business. Developing this understanding will support you in effectively managing your information assets through change.
This guidance supports Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) to embed digital continuity into the organisation’s Information Technology (IT) strategy.
This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and staff in central government departments and agencies who handle records relating to the management of information. It is unlikely that any information management records will be selected for permanent preservation.
This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers, Finance Directors and Internal Audit staff. It covers all internal audit records no longer required for business purposes, which are subject to a formal appraisal process to determine whether they fall within the criteria of selection for permanent preservation.
This guidance provides a high level guide to the steps you can take to manage digital continuity. It assumes a basic understanding of what digital continuity means.
Digital continuity loss is experienced in five ways – you can't find, open, work with, understand or trust the information you have. This guidance is
aimed at anyone who has experienced a digital continuity loss and wants to understand why and how that loss happened, how they can resolve the problem and how they might avoid it happening again.
This guidance will help you prepare for migrating information between Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS) and focuses on maintaining the continuity of your information.
Guidance on preparing physical records for transfer for records management staff from all government departments and agencies transferring records to The National Archives.
This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and staff in press offices or public relations/communications units of government departments and agencies. It covers records in all media generated by press offices and related functional areas.
The following guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and their staff and also staff in government departments and agencies who have responsibilities for project management. It covers records in all media generated by all kinds of projects.
This guidance describes the technical factors that should be considered when establishing policies and procedures for managing the digital records of an inquiry, to
reduce the cost and impact of the operational management of the records in support of the inquiry, and to safeguard the Public Record for the future.
This checklist helps test that your information asset meets your users’ needs to find, open, work with, understand and trust the information it contains.
This piece of guidance is a high level introduction to digital continuity – what it is, why it's important and why it's relevant to you and your organisation. It also contains an overview of how you can better manage it, and what your next steps could be.