2025 - November and December - page 10
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| Issue number | 404 |
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| ISSN | 2632-7171 |
| Publication date | 1st November 2025 |
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magazine ARA News Advocacy Update Police Records Following a meeting with the Policing Minister we put out a statement and press release calling for these records (in England and Wales) to be Public Records. The statement was published on our Campaign for Records website and also sent to all MPs. We also publicised this via our social media channels. Care and Adoption Records Our Chief Archivists in Local Government Group (CALGG) has been working on guidance and recommendations on the records of care and adoption experienced people for some time. Following a call by the television programme Long Lost Families for these records to be digitised, the care and adoption records working group drafted an alternative proposal. This was sent in advance to already identified stakeholders and then published on the ARA Website, the Campaign for Records website and sent to our press list and a list of all MPs. We also publicised this via our social media channels. Discussions with the Heritage Minister Following a helpful meeting with the Gambling and Heritage Minister, Baroness Twycross, we have now supplied the Minister with a formal briefing that includes a funding request to help Local Authority archives clear their cataloguing backlog. This has been shared with The UK National Archives and with CALGG. We do not expect a response from the Minister until Parliament sits again in the middle of October. Green Party draft Culture Media and Sport policy Archives have now been included in the wording of the Green Party’s draft Culture Media and Sport policy. 10 Lesley Ferguson appointed as new Chair of the Archive Service Accreditation Committee. After serving a term of six years, Geoff Pick is stepping down from the role of Chair of the Archive Service Accreditation Committee and Lesley Ferguson takes up the role from November. quality assurance relating to Archive Service Accreditation. Members of the Committee are also responsible for approving accredited archive services through the Archive Service Accreditation Panels. Lesley is the Head of Archives and Library at Historic Environment Scotland, an accredited archives service, and will retire shortly after a career spanning over 40 years. She has direct experience of improving standards of care for the archive and implementing digital preservation; developing the archive and improving access through major programmes of cataloguing, digitisation, engagement and research, as well as managing a range of online systems. At present she is a Trustee of the Scottish Council on Archives, and has Board experience, including on the Advisory Council for National Records and Archives (2014-21) and as Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (2008-11). Archive Service Accreditation defines good practice and agreed standards for archive services across the UK, thereby encouraging and supporting the development of the archive sector. The Archive Service Accreditation Committee is responsible for reviewing policy and considering matters of Archive Service Accreditation is supported by a partnership of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland), Archives and Records Council Wales, National Records of Scotland, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Scottish Council on Archives, The UK National Archives, and the Welsh Government through its Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales division. Further information about Archive Service Accreditation is available here. |