Archiving

All training material should be dated, appropriately retained and archived in such a way that it can easily be established when the training material was composed, when it came into …

The Panel considers that the implementation of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 should bring about a more consistent approach to the archiving and availability of transferred records and encourages …

The Panel recommends that police force records are brought under legislative control and that police forces are added to Part II of the First Schedule to the Public Records Act …

The Panel recommends that central government documents relating to Hillsborough which were disclosed to the Panel be transferred to The National Archives at Kew in due course, with redactions agreed …

The Panel proposes a Distributed Permanent Archive of the original material at Sheffield Archives and Liverpool Record Office and for central government records at The National Archives at Kew. Such …

Private owners of documents and other material made available to the Panel, especially where those records have been disclosed on the Hillsborough website, should be encouraged to deposit their records …

An Editor-in-Chief should be appointed to be responsible for the policy and implementation of the digital archive post-disclosure and continuing technical support should be provided to manage existing and new …

A protocol for allowing additional material to be incorporated into the digital archive and for taking down material is recommended.

The digital archive and the audio-visual material should remain available for the foreseeable future at Liverpool and Sheffield with advisory and support staff as necessary; it should be accessible according …

The digital archive, including audio-visual material, eventually should be permanently archived at The National Archives.