Guest blog post from the Office of the Information Commissioner. To mark the important occasion of Right to Information Day – our colleagues at the Office of the Information Commissioner have asked us to share some information about this special day. So over to the OIC … and thanks for sharing. Right to Information Day... Continue Reading →
Be prepared! The Baseline Survey is coming.
The Building Digital Capability – the Records Governance Policy Baseline Survey is coming soon The Survey is based on the new Records Governance Policy (launched in June 2018) and links to QSA’s Recordkeeping Transformation Program. The results will establish a baseline against which future surveys can be measured. The new Survey wants to know all... Continue Reading →
News: The New QSA Survey is nearly here!
The Building Digital Capability – the Records Governance Policy Baseline Survey is coming soon. The Survey is part of QSA’s Recordkeeping Transformation Program and will measure agencies’ implementation of the Records Governance Policy, and their overall recordkeeping maturity, creating a baseline from which to measure progress annually. There has never been a more important time... Continue Reading →
Feedback on the Records Governance Policy
It’s been nearly two months since the State Archivist released the Records Governance Policy, so we thought it might be a nice time to look at how the Policy came to be. From the very beginning, when we first started thinking about reviewing Information Standards 40 and 31, we knew we wanted to do something... Continue Reading →
Unpacking Policy Requirement 6 – Agencies must dispose of records in a planned and authorised way
Today’s blog post is about what you keep and what you don’t. Previously, we wanted agencies to do two things: keep records for as long needed AND not dispose of anything without authorisation. While you still need to do these two things, our focus needs to shift. Agencies are producing more records than ever before,... Continue Reading →
News: Records Management Challenge training is here
Today, we have released our Records Management Challenge Training. The Records Management Challenge Training is part of the Recordkeeping Transformation Program, which aims to improve the standard of records and information management across government. The Challenge is a step up from Recordkeeping and You training, released in June. This new learning tool allows public service... Continue Reading →
Unpacking Policy Requirement 5: Agencies must make records discoverable and accessible for use and re-use
We believe that we don’t keep records just to keep them; we keep them so we can use them. We like to think of it as ‘recordusing’ rather than recordkeeping. We know we use records for the routine, day-to-day, known activities like making decisions, providing evidence and informing our work but we want to be... Continue Reading →
Unpacking Policy Requirement 4 – Agencies must actively manage permanent, high-value and high-risk records and information as a priority
Today’s blog post is about priorities. The Records Governance Policy has some thoughts about what records should get more of your attention and we’re going to talk about why that is. In the past, we’ve tended to look at records in a black and white way. If something was a record, you had to treat... Continue Reading →
Unpacking Policy Requirement 3 – Agencies must create complete and reliable records
Here at QSA we chat a lot about the notion of creation in records management. Is the act of creating something still relevant in a digital-by-default environment? Is everything created automatically by virtue of how we work these days? Not quite. We still have to consciously create records of what we do before we can... Continue Reading →
