New Data Retention Guidance

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The UK government recently issued updated guidance on record keeping for academies and trusts to assist them with their record keeping obligations.  Click here to be taken to the Government site.  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/record-keeping-and-retention-information-for-academies

The new guidance covers finance records in addition to pupil, staff, parental and governance records, complimenting much of the existing handbooks and documents.
More specifically, the new guidance includes:
  • An introduction to record keeping
  • The minimum to be kept
  • Storage of files
  • Transfer of records
  • Retention of records
  • How to dispose of records
  • Transfers within a local authority
For schools that already follow existing schedules such as the Information and Records Management Society Toolkit guidance, then this is not a huge change although cross referencing is advisable.
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