Records Management is the ways in which we look after information owned by the organisation. This includes information about how the organisation is run, as well as information about staff and clients of the organisation.

Because the CYPS is a partnership, policies on records management are managed by the individual partner organisations.

Records which need to be kept usually need to be kept for a set period of time, unless they are records which need to be held forever. Instructions for how long records should be kept for are written in a document called a Records Retention Schedule.

NHS Records Management
Health records are kept according to the Records Management: NHS Code of Practice. Click here to access the code of practice. For guidance on how to manage records within the health service, please click on the appropriate links below:

• Click here for details of Health Records contacts in Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
  
• Click here for information about records management in NHS Trafford.
  
• Click here for access to health records in Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.

Trafford Council Records Retention
Trafford Council is currently reviewing their retention schedules as part of a records management project, and the final Records Retention Schedules will be published once this is complete. In the meantime, if you require advice regarding records management please contact:

Michelle Peel
CYPS Information Governance Officer
Email: michelle.peel@trafford.gov.uk
Government Connect Secure Email: michelle.peel@trafford.gcsx.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 1240

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