This is a list of questions your agency can use to quickly assess its records management activities. The answer to all of these questions should be 'yes'. To complete a more detailed assessment, or an assessment focusing only on minimum requirements or high risk functions, you can use Check-up: A Tool for Assessing your Agency's Information and Records Management.

Does your agency have:

• an information management framework in place to strategically capture and manage information, including records, in a coordinated way?
• a strategy in place to guide the systematic planning of records management improvement activities?
• a records management policy on creating and managing records?
• assigned records management responsibilities?
• a knowledge of what records it needs to make and keep to support its business?
• a developed procedure and system to ensure the capture and management of these records?
• systems in place which will ensure that records:

• can be proven to be genuine?
• are accurate and can be trusted?
• are secure from unauthorised alteration, deletion and access?
• are findable and able to be read?
• are related to other relevant records?

• trained staff to meet their records management responsibilities?
• a preservation strategy for its records?
• a regular schedule of audits of its records management practices?

and does it promote records management as an integral part of the business culture of the agency?