Dear all,

Could anybody please state what they consider to be their top 10 Statutory Obligations and Regulations for Records Management for each of the following services:

- Adult Services
- Children Services (inc Education)
- Housing
- Env and Reg
- Legal
- General (inc communications and complaints, HR,)
- Finance


Any and all comments would be more than welcome.

Tracy Phillips
Senior Information Manager, Corp Law & Community Services
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From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Brigid
Venables
Sent: 26 September 2005 01:23
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Subject: Re: [RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK] Confidential disposal of modern
media


Demagnetising??  Not sure how it is done.   

Brigid Venables
University of Adelaide
Australia

Katy Thomas wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have recently come across some floppy discs that need destroying but I
> remember some IT bod telling me that breaking the disc in half does not
> stop someone retrieving the information held on it if they really wanted
> to.  I too would be interested to see what possibilities there are for
> destroying such material.
> 
> Katy Thomas
> Records Manager
> University of Wales, Aberystwyth
> 
> > Dear all
> >
> > Is there an accepted way of ensuring confidential disposal of modern media
> > such as back-up tapes, floppy disks and CD-ROMs?  We can obviously destroy
> > them as best we can by snapping disks in half, mangling the magnetic tape,
> > etc., but would be interested to hear if there is a universally adopted
> > approach.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Caroline Sampson
> > Warwickshire County Record Office
> >

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Corporate Information
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