Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit

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Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit The Disposal Schedule for common administrative records Accra, Ghana May 2012

Program What is Disposal? What is a disposal schedule Intro to the PARBICA Model Disposal Schedule Implementing the schedule Practice using the schedule How the schedule could be used in your country / organisation MARK:

Disposal Schedule Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit GUIDELINE 7: Disposal Schedule A system for making accountable decisions about when to dispose of files MARK: A natural extension to the Record Plan is the Disposal Schedule. PARBICA’s Disposal Schedule will enhance the Record Plan by providing instructions for the disposal or retention of administrative records that are common across government departments.

Disposal Schedule Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit GUIDELINE 8: Adapting and Implementing the Administrative Disposal Schedule A system for making accountable decisions about when to dispose of files MARK: A natural extension to the Record Plan is the Disposal Schedule. PARBICA’s Disposal Schedule will enhance the Record Plan by providing instructions for the disposal or retention of administrative records that are common across government departments.

Having and implementing a disposal schedule ticks many recordkeeping capacity boxes.

Question 6: Does the organisation know what its recordkeeping requirement are? Recordkeeping requirements: Are a need to keep evidence of an organisation’s actions and decisions Are usually identified in laws, policies, procedures, reviews etc Should be documented Should be regularly reviewed A disposal schedule gives evidence that you know what your requirements are for retaining and disposing of records

Question 8: Does the organisation abide by the government’s rules for deciding when its records can be destroyed? Disposal rules: Require the government archivist’s agreement Should help to preserve historical records Should be based on the organisation’s recordkeeping requirements The disposal schedule is the documentation of what the rules are

What is disposal? ‘Disposal’ means what happens to a record when it reaches the end of its life: Archive OR Destroy Do you have any other options for your jurisdiction? We have discharge and sale.

Active Use & Management Final Disposal Decision Creation & Control Information management life-cycle Distribution Active Use & Management Inactive Storage A reminder of where we are at in the lifecycle. Final Disposal Decision We are here Permanent Retention Destruction

What is a disposal schedule? A tool for people who look after records A timetable that tells you when a record is ready for disposal and what should happen to it When = retention period - how long it is kept What = disposal action – archive or destroy

When do you apply a disposal schedule to a record? Retention periods (how long you keep it) and disposal actions (what finally happens to it) are only triggered when a record becomes INACTIVE You can apply the schedule to existing INACTIVE records You can apply the schedule to NEW records when you create them, so you know what will happen to them when they become inactive Existing records – review and apply schedule When you create new records you can match them to the schedule and annotate the retention period and disposal action

What does INACTIVE mean? The record is closed No papers are being added to it It may still be used for reference

Group activity: Let’s discuss why using a schedule is a good idea One group or lots of groups? 5 minutes discussion with people beside you?

Benefits of using a disposal schedule Save space Save money Save time (retrieval) Meet legal requirements Keep the right records Save records from accidental destruction Get rid of records you don’t need at the right time

The PARBICA model administrative Disposal Schedule

The PARBICA model administrative Disposal Schedule Developed by the working group For use by Pacific Island government organisations For common administrative records: The records that every organisation creates for managing itself E.g. finance, personnel, information management It can’t be used for core business records It is a model Disposal Schedule and you will have to adapt it to fit your organisation Same working group as developed the records plan Focus on why it is a model. there are so many local variables that need to be considered when developing a schedule that we thought we couldn’t account for all of them in one doc. We could account for most, but there’s issues around: - retention periods and the legislation that controls them, The need to transfer records to the archive after a certain time Organisational and business need for retaining records for reference Resilience to risk

What records does the Disposal Schedule cover? The common administrative functions covered by the Disposal Schedule are: Assets and Resources Management External Relations Financial Management Information Management Personnel and Establishment Strategic Management Again, same as the plan so that there’s lots of alignment. This is usual.

What does the Disposal Schedule look like? A separate section for each common administrative function It is a table that lists: Activity Description of activity Examples of records Disposal action Minimum retention period What disposal criteria were used to decide the disposal action

Let’s look at a page of the schedule The name of the function is at the top of the page with a description Each line in the table is what is called a disposal class Function + activity + description + example + disposal action + retention period = disposal class Each disposal class has a reference number - this is just a shorthand way of talking about the class Look at the first page of the schedule The functions are the same as the ones in the records plan, and the description is also the same Take some questions Ask about the look and feel and similarities with ones used by participants recently.

How did we decide the disposal actions? We developed disposal criteria that helped us assess the value of the functions and activities

Disposal criteria Two basic characteristics that determine whether or not records should be archives – evidence value Information value So let’s do an exercise to help understand how disposal criteria are developed or handout disposal criteria Evidential value. - when does this evidential value diminish? Sometimes it never does Informational value - e.g. records that document a major event. Hosting the african nations cup?

Group activity: Disposal actions – Archive/Destroy

Permanent Retention Exercise Why would you keep a record forever? In small groups. Keep these papers because they could form the basis of what could be a west african disposal criteria 15 minutes

Destruction exercise Why would you destroy a record? 15 minutes

Disposal criteria Let’s look at the disposal criteria developed by the PARBICA working group Hand out criteria Compare and contrast. questions? / discussion

Implementing the schedule This means applying the Disposal Schedule to your records You can sentence existing INACTIVE records and you can tag new records with their disposal class You don’t have to be using the Toolkit Records Plan, because the Disposal Schedule can be applied to any fling system, but using the Record Plan might make it easier to use the schedule Remember the Disposal Schedule is only used for administrative records!

Applying the Disposal Schedule to existing records (1) To do this you need to list your records! You need to know at least: The file name or type of record The date of the first paper The date of the last paper Show list example Use marked up list example (minus mark-up) as example of inventory What if they are not files? Then you need to know what kind of records they are, how many, and what dates

Listing records Not all records have to be listed one by one You can list ‘batches’ or bundles of the same kind of record as 1 group; e.g. a bundle of receipts or a batch of invoices Files and folders of papers must be listed one by one Who batches records currently? Financial reports? Invoices?

Applying the Disposal Schedule to existing records (2) Go through the list of records and find the class in the schedule that best fits the records Calculate the retention date using the date of last paper of the record and the retention period in the schedule Write the disposal class reference and the disposal date on the list Match the schedule to the records

Calculating the disposal date Last date + retention period = disposal date For example: Last date 2002 Retention period 7 years = disposal date 2009

Finding the right disposal class Ask these questions: What is the record called? What is the record about? What processes caused the record to be created or received? Who is using or will use the record? Check the activity, description, and examples to see what best fits the record Which page of the guide. – lets use it going through. The implementation guide has some rules on what to do in these situations Page 3 of implementation guide

What happens if a record fits in more than one disposal class? If the disposal action for one class is DESTROY and the other is ARCHIVE, then use the class that has the ARCHIVE disposal action If both disposal classes have a disposal action of DESTROY, but the retention periods are different, then use the class with the longest retention period Page 5 of implementation guide

Applying the Disposal Schedule to records when they are created (1) You can assign retention periods and disposal actions to records when they are created so you know what their disposal will be Use the schedule to decide the disposal class Add the disposal action, retention period and reference number to your file list or index Add the disposal action, retention period and reference number to the file If people just create records when and how they like, then it will be more difficult to apply R&D to them

Applying the Disposal Schedule to records when they are created (2) You can only do this when records are created if you have an active records management program It will be easier to do if you are using the Toolkit records plan You will still have to wait until they are INACTIVE to calculate their final disposal date

Remember that disposal date is calculated once records are inactive Active Inactive (retention) Disposal E.g. Opened 1999  Closed 2003  Inactive for 7 years  Disposal 2010 We will come back to this later in the day

When do records become inactive? Different for different records/activities; e.g. a personnel/staff file becomes inactive when employment ceases A budget file becomes inactive at the end of the financial/fiscal year Just a reminder about when records become inactive

When does a record become inactive? Think about the records you create and receive and think about when they become inactive/closed What is the trigger for this – an event/action or a time? Use whiteboard.

Group activity: Let’s identify some trigger points for when records become inactive Working out when a record becomes inactive is also useful for when you start to implement the schedule

Inactive triggers When a person ceases employment When a project is over When a case is closed At the end of a financial year When the file part or volume is full and a new part is opened

Activating retention periods and disposal actions Do disposal once a year, perhaps at the end of the year Separate inactive records from active records Separate records to be archived from records to be destroyed If possible organise them by disposal date (year) When the retention period is up, then get the records ready for disposal Organising the records makes it easier to carry out the disposal later

Steps to carrying out disposal actions Create lists of the records that are ready for disposal – separate lists for Archive and Destroy records Use your existing lists and separate out the records that are ready for disposal into Send out the lists to the people who use the records to get authority to dispose Then prepare records for transfer to National Archives or destruction Circulate the list to the users of the records accompanied by a memo stating that the records are due for disposal and asking if there are reasons why any of them should not be disposed. It is possible that a record that is ready for disposal is still being used for reference purposes because of a specific case or event. It is acceptable to defer disposal until a record is no longer required for reference.

What’s authority to dispose? The Disposal Schedule has already been agreed by the Permanent Secretary and the National Archives But now you are actually either destroying records or transferring them to National Archives You have to make sure that the records are not still required for reference by someone in the organisation It’s ok to put off the disposal of a record if it is required for reference because of a specific case or event Who has the authority in your country? What about levels of authority – eg. Business group, CEO or permanent secretary, national archivist.

Preparing records for transfer to Archives Ask your National Archives what instructions they have for boxing, listing and transferring the records Keep a copy of the list of records you have transferred Keep the paperwork associated with the transfer (such as transfer or deposit agreement)

Destroying records Keep lists of destroyed records Don’t just put them in the rubbish! Burn them or shred them So you know they have been destroyed and not just lost

Group activity: Let’s practice applying the schedule Working out when a record becomes inactive is also useful for when you start to implement the schedule. Hand out the partially done list. 20 minutes: groups of 4. There’s deliberately a couple of tricky ones in there.

Apply the schedule to a list Use the list I will hand out Find the disposal class in the schedule that best fits the record Add the disposal action, retention period, and schedule reference number to the blank fields in the list Calculate the disposal date and add it to the field in the list fro disposal date When completed go through this exercise and ask what the issues were Hand out copies of the marked-up list

How you can use the model Disposal Schedule

Adapting the model Disposal Schedule Before it can be used, the model Disposal Schedule must be adapted to fit local requirements Add to or change the descriptions and examples so they are more relevant – use actual examples of records created in your government organisations Adapt retention periods to follow local legislation Remove classes that are not relevant If you use the Toolkit to develop a records plan, then that will help you understand the records your organisation has The retention periods in the schedule for the disposal action DESTROY are the recommended minimum You need to check legislation to find out if there is anything in it about retention periods for records Your organisation might have some rules about how long records are to be kept for If there are specific retention periods for some records you can alter the Disposal Schedule so the retention periods reflect your legislation or business rules There are no minimum retention periods for records that are Archives because your own NA will have rules about when records can be transferred to them - use the personnel records as an example. 48

One schedule for all departments, adapted by the National Archives Advantages: 1 disposal schedule for administrative records that all departments can use Less time to adapt and approve the schedule than if each department did it individually Consistent retention periods across government

Group activity: Let’s discuss how you might use the disposal schedule in your offices Think about the options given earlier.

Summing up