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Practitioner Certificate in Scottish Public Sector Records Management

Practitioner level course in records management

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COURSE DELIVERY

Online Live Attended

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

COURSE LENGTH

Delivered live online over six days

PRICE PER PERSON

£1,300.00 excl VAT

Practitioner Certificate in Scottish Public Sector Records Management

Course Overview

COURSE TAGS

Online Live Attended•practitioner•PRSA•Records Management

Course Includes 

30 hours CPD, printed hard copy course materials, support during submission and assessment of the portfolio

Certification Award

Practitioner Certificate

Prerequisites

None
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Course Description

Under the Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011, Scottish Public Authorities must designate a records manager to “have operational responsibility for records management within the organisation” and ensure that individual has “the relevant skills and training”.

This course is specifically designed to support colleagues without a formal records management background or qualification to develop the skills and knowledge to be effective and confident in the records manager role for a Scottish public authority.

​On successful completion of a portfolio of work-based evidence, delegates will receive a Practitioner Certificate in Scottish Public Sector Records Management.

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Course Content

Records Management in the Scottish Public Sector

Records Management: Definitions and principles; Scope and limitations; RM as a professional discipline; Business drivers and benefits.-Legislation and standards: Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and s61 Code of Practice; General Data Protection Regulation; ISO15489; ARMA Generally Accepted Record-keeping Principles.

Records structure and retrieval

Search engines versus fileplans; Functional analysis and Business Classification Schemes; Metadata schema; file naming conventions; social media and the record; Classification, security and vital records.

Managing the records lifecycle

Concepts – Lifecycle versus continuum; Appropriate creation and capture. Drivers for records retention. Risk Analysis. Retention schedule – Approaches, models and resources. Disposal and desturction of life-expired records. Archival delection, permanent preservation and transfer agreements; Proper Arrangements for archives.

Practical implementation

Tools and techniques: ECMS, EDRMS and SharePoint; Microsoft 365; Managing shared drives; Email as a record; Paper records management. Delivery: Making the business change; Training and awareness raising; Third parties and RM contracted out functions; Programme management; Metrics and KPIs.

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This year, TKM and Associate’s chosen charity is the Trussell Trust, an organisation that supports food banks across the UK.

For each person who books a full or half-day course, we pledge £20; for a three-day booking it is £35 and for those who book the practitioner-level course we will donate £50.

We raised an amazing amount of almost £4k last year for the DEC Ukraine appeal through your support. Thank you!