The Scotsman
'Obsessive Managers Forced Police to Wipe Out Files'
By Nick Allen, Crime Correspondent, PA News
Police forces were forced to delete potentially valuable files on suspects by
“obsessive” managers within their own ranks, the Police Superintendents
Association said today.
In a written submission to the inquiry into why records of sex allegations
against Soham killer Ian Huntley were erased by Humberside Police, the
association said there had been an over-zealous response to the Act in recent
years.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2589926


Content counts the cost of compliance
By Miya Knights [02-03-2004]
Analyst stresses importance of managing content throughout the business
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153189



Contractor UK
Old logs home goes online
When a vendor withdraws support for a version of its product, it isn’t just the
commercial users that suffer. Professional archivists can find themselves
supporting dozens, if not hundreds, of obsolete file formats.
The government’s National Archive has been tackling this problem over the last
couple of years, and has now put its solution online. Anyone stuck with the
problem of consolidating old Word or Excel documents, not to mention other
application packages which have long vanished from the market, can now go to
Pronom, which the National Archive describes “as a major on-line resource for
the international digital preservation community”.
http://www.contractoruk.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=10950


BBC
BBC launches online clips archive
Thousands of clips from BBC radio and
TV factual programmes will be free to
download from the internet this autumn,
the BBC has announced.
The clips, of up to three minutes, will
include natural history footage and be
available on the BBC website.
The service is the first stage of the Creative
Archive initiative announced by former
director general Greg Dyke.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3525455.stm


Managing Information
3 March 2004
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Launches New Approach to Learning
The MLA launched a pioneering programme to make museums,
libraries and archives central to the development of modern
education at a conference recently.
http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2458



The Scotsman
Nurse probed over soldier's records 'leak'
CHRIS MOONEY
A NURSE at Edinburgh’s Redford Barracks is under investigation by
military chiefs over allegations of "professional misconduct".
Audrey Fernie, a civilian staff nurse at the Medical Reception Centre at the
barracks, has been suspended over claims she gained unauthorised access to
confidential medical records belonging to a soldier who served in Iraq.
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=249582004


Kablenet.com
IT to aid UK child protection
4 March 2004
Databases and information sharing systems are among the
measures outlined in a new Bill to prevent the abuse of children
Electronic records of vulnerable children will be created under provisions
to shake up child protection in England and Wales. The measures were
set out in the Children Bill, presented to Parliament on 4 March 2004.
Children's services agencies in England and Wales will be required to set
up databases of information about children in their care. The bill also
includes regulations about the type of information which will be stored
and how it will accessed and used.
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/A9E31138A028463380256E4D00436973?OpenDocument



Parliamentary briefing paper sets out challenges for NPfIT
04 Mar 2004
A new parliamentary briefing paper on the National Programme for IT has
highlighted stakeholder involvement, communications, "imposing change on a
highly devolved NHS", and the complexity of the programme each as potential
areas of concern for the success of the project.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=675



InSourced
Companies fail to keep e-mail and e-documents
Nearly half of American companies haven't adopted records retention policies for e-mail and other
electronic documents, despite the serious issues raised about corporate records keeping over the past two
years. In a new survey of 2,200 records managers, 47 percent said their company does not include
electronic records in its retention and destruction schedules. Nearly six in 10 companies (59 percent)
reported having no formal policy concerning the retention of e-mail.
http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/1424/1/1/


The Independent
Police confess to catalogue of
blunders over Huntley
By Danielle Demetriou
06 March 2004
A police chief admitted yesterday he had been
"foolish" to blame his force's destruction of
records on Ian Huntley on data protection laws.
Hours after Huntley's conviction last year, David
Westwood, the Chief Constable of Humberside,
said the records of previous sex allegations
against Huntley had been destroyed because it
would have been illegal to keep them.
At the Bichard inquiry into how Huntley was able
to get a job at Soham College, he said yesterday
that the excuse had been wrong. Mr Westwood
said he had misinterpreted a phone call he made
to the data commission authorities. "It was illadvised
and I made a mistake," he told the
inquiry.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=498413



Nepalese PoWs need Indian records for compensation
Indo-Asian News Service
Kathmandu, 29 February
Records maintained by the Indian Army for nearly six decades are expected to
come to the aid of the British Gurkha soldiers who fought during World War II
and were taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Far East.
These soldiers had applied for compensation from the British Army. But first they
have to prove that they were in fact part of the forces that were captured. And the
records of the soldiers may rest with the Indian Army.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_592191,00050002.htm



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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