Hello,
We have spent the last year preparing a report for Tameside MBC on a
possible records management system for its modern records. The authority
is a fairly large urban metropolitan borough on the outskirts of
Manchester. It has never had any records management provision. The
report reccomended the employment of a records management staff and the
setting up of a proper rm system, particularly in the light of FOI and
the various related codes of practice.
This has backfired somewhat in that whilst the council recognises the
need for records management provision it is not prepared to make any
money available (and yes we've used the "it will save money in the long
run" argument). We have been asked therefore to write a proposal for a
"minimal" approach, ie what is the minimum we can do in the light of
existing and forthcoming legal requirements and legislation?
The natural tendency is to just give up, but bearing in mind that as we
do nothing at the moment so anything is an improvement and that the
authority only employs one professional archivist/ records manager (me)
and that any time I spend will have to come out of other core
activities, does anyone have any suggestions as to what such "minimum
requirements" should include?
Also, we have been asked to supply examples of records management
policy/strategy/procedure documents from other local authorities. Does
anyone have any that they are willing to let us use copies of, please?
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Thanks,
Alan Carter,
Archivist,
Tameside Local Studies and Archives Unit.
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