Getting started with information and records management

Discover what information and records management is. Learn how to create, find and use, and dispose of records.

How to manage your information

Guidance for public offices and local authorities on how to manage information and records under the Public Records Act

• Key obligations and the standard ⟩
• Planning and strategy ⟩
• Implementation ⟩
• Appraisal ⟩
• Disposal ⟩
• Transfer ⟩
• Digital ⟩

A–Z list of guidance

Find all information management guidance for public offices and local authorities

How we regulate

How we monitor and audit the sector, our other regulatory tools and updates on any public sector organisations planning to dispose of records

• Our regulatory role ⟩
• Intentions to dispose ⟩
• Monitoring and audit ⟩
• Public sector archival selection statement ⟩
• Our regulatory tools ⟩

Government loans

Public sector organisations can borrow records that have been transferred to us. Find out how it works.

• Government loans — key points ⟩
• Government loans procedures ⟩
• Government loans policy ⟩

Information management updates

Learn about changes in public sector information management

Case studies

Read our case studies to learn how public sector organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand are developing best practice information management in line with the Public Records Act 2005.

Sector engagement

Recordings and presentations from our stakeholder engagement forums.

The care records definition

Get the details on our care records definition. Read our plain language and detailed versions of the care records definition and learn more about how we came up with it.

• Read the care records definition ⟩
• How we came up with the care records definition ⟩
• Alignment with te Tiriti o Waitangi principles ⟩
• What we’re doing in response to the Royal Commission ⟩