Decision details

In recent years, the Council has modernised its business practices. In particular, the Future Space programme has triggered reviews of the Council’s building assets and resulted in both temporary and permanent relocation of the staffing and retained filing in multiple locations. This has highlighted the significant historic archive of paper files held for many years in various locations and conditions.

In the past five years, as a result of the need to appropriately deal with historic social care files, a dedicated inhouse team has been systematically reviewing and then disposing of or scanning thousands of such files. However, it has been impossible for that small team (four FTE) to keep up as thousands of additional files have been located.