Focus group: the records of adopted and care-experienced people – additional retention guidance

​Help update retention guidance for record-keepers and care professionals.

​We recently published Guidance on the Records of Adopted and Care-Experienced People (Feb 2024). We are a participative and inclusionary project led by members of the Chief Archivists in Local Government Group (CALGG), independent consultants and academics and professionals working in the records management, data protection and access to records fields. Some of our project members are adopted and care experienced people and have experience making access requests to their files, or are access to records practitioners, and data protection officers, in the charitable and local government sectors.

​Care-experienced and adopted people, archivists & records managers and social workers are invited to participate in an online focus group to shape updated and detailed improvements in retaining care-experienced and adopted people’s records in England and Wales. This has been identified as a critical need by many recent reports including IICSA.