Records Management

Chapter 9: Normal administrative practice – records that do not need to be archived

Some information can be routinely destroyed following a process known as Normal Administrative Practice.

Normal Administrative Practice allows the routine disposal of information that is not an official school record, examples include:

• working documents consisting of rough notes and calculations used only to assist in the preparation of other records such as correspondence and reports – for example, handwritten attendance rolls subsequently captured in CASES21
• records of short term or temporary value – for example, a reminder note or list of things to do
• additional copies of documents, emails and publications maintained for reference purposes – for example, duplicate copies of School Council papers.
  

Refer to Chapter 10 – How to destroy ‘time-expired’ records for guidance on how to formally dispose of official school records.