Planning

Thorough planning is essential for good information management. You need to secure support from senior management for this work and ensure that you have the right people involved across your organisation. You should also have a clear understanding of your business requirements and compliance requirements under legislation such as the Public Records and Freedom of Information Acts.

The National Archives is working to promote compliance with the Code of Practice on the management of records in all public authorities.

The information principles enable organisations across the public sector to become increasingly aligned in their use and management of information (both structured and unstructured), drawing on their own local strategy and practices from a common set of principles and best practices.

This set of Knowledge principles has been designed by Knowledge and Information Management practitioners in government to assist their colleagues in developing strategies and plans to improve how knowledge is shared in their departments.

These guiding principles are produced as part of the Keeper of Public Records’ statutory responsibility to provide guidance, coordination and supervision.

This content is being reviewed and will be available shortly. If you have any questions now, please contact governmenthelppoint@nationalarchives.gov.uk

This guidance identifies the issues an organisation needs to address when developing a specification for an offsite store for physical records.