Retention and disposal schedules define how we manage our physical and digital records and information.
They provide guidance on how long we should keep information and when we should delete or dispose of it.
They are updated to reflect changes in legislation and business requirements.
Current schedules
These pages contain our schedules. For each type of data, they show information on:
- the disposal time frame for paper and digital copies
- whether it contains personal or special category data
- any example records
- the statutory provision or authority for holding the data
The retention schedules are listed below by department:
- Adult social care
- Cemeteries and crematorium
- Children's social care
- Climate change
- Commissioning
- Communications and marketing
- Community and libraries
- Community safety
- Customer services
- Democracy and governance
- Economy and regeneration
- Education and learning
- Finance
- Forestcare
- Health and safety
- Housing
- Human resources
- ICT and digital
- Information governance and compliance
- Internal audit
- Leadership
- Legal
- Leisure and culture
- Planning and building control
- Procurement
- Property
- Public health s
- Registration services
- Transport and infrastructure
Archived schedules
An archived version of the previous retention schedule can be found below.
| Attachment | Size |
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Document
Retention schedule
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3 MB |