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2024 Check-up whole-of government summary report

2025 Check-up survey

The 2025 Check-up survey is open from 1 September 2025. It will close on 1 December 2025.

The 2024 survey questions are available below and will be updated when the 2025 survey questions are finalised. There will be minor changes to the questions for 2025.

Download the 2024 survey questions:

If you have any questions about the Check-up survey, please contact the National Archives via information.management@naa.gov.au.

About the Check-up survey

Check-up is the National Archives of Australia’s information management survey. It is an online self-assessment tool designed to measure Australian Government agencies’ maturity and performance in managing their information assets (records, information and data).

The National Archives analyses the survey data to measure the whole-of-government information management maturity. The findings inform our report to the Minister.

Check-up is structured to align with the National Archives' Information Management Standard for Australian Government and the Building trust in the public record policy.

The survey is completed and coordinated by the person (or people) with responsibility for information management within an agency. It should be submitted by your agency head, unless there are exceptional circumstances, as agreed to by the National Archives.

The National Archives regards survey sign off by the recognised agency head as assurance that the survey has been completed accurately and accountably by the agency in accordance with governance responsibilities including the Public Governance Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Copies of the previous survey questionnaires and the whole-of-government summary reports are available below.

The Check-up survey is available under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 (CC–BY-NC 4.0) licence.

Previous Check-up surveys

For more information about the content of previous surveys, see:

Based on Check-up data the National Archives commissioned an implementation report on the Digital Continuity Policy (2015-2020).

Digital Continuity 2020 Policy (2015–2020) Report on implementation

The Digital Continuity 2020 policy (DOCX 413kB) was issued in 2015 with the aim for policy objectives to be implemented by December 2020. Under the policy, agencies were to integrate robust digital information management into all government business processes to support digital transformation, efficiency, innovation, information re-use and accountability.

The DC2020 Policy applied to all Australian Government entities, including government business enterprises. It covered government information, data and records in both digital and non-digital formats, as well as systems, services and processes.

The policy required agencies to meet targets around three principles:

  1. Information is valued
  2. Information is managed digitally
  3. Information, systems and processes are interoperable.

The policy recommended 10 actions that agencies could take and set a number of interim targets leading to implementation of the policy.

The DC2020 policy was superseded by the Building trust in the public record policy on 1 January 2021.

Download the Digital Continuity 2020 Policy report (DOCX 4MB).