Islington's 'EDRM in the Public Sector' event

Managing the council's documents

Islington Council has around 4,000 staff – with every one of those employees creating their own records of business. Some of these records are needed inside the council only. Others will be open information, so may need to be accessed easily and at any time for public disclosure.

The council’s Information Governance and Freedom of Information teams are in charge of making sure records are well managed and accessible. To help do this, using a single method that can be shared across all departments, Islington has put into practice an Electronic Document Records Management System (EDRMS).

This is a system accessed online, internally, which uses a common classification structure to categorise and store all council documents in the same way.

The council’s EDRMS operates using the Local Government Classification Scheme and Alfresco software.

EDRM in the Public Sector event – 14 February 2008

The Council, supported by Alfresco, held an event at Islington Central Library to showcase the EDRM practices it's adopted. Those invited included several other local government authorities from across the country, as well as a number of organisations with an interest in formal document management, such as the BBC, Dorset Police and the University of York.

The event's speakers were:

• Amy Harms
  Knowledge Manager and EDRM Project Manager, Islington Council

• Louise Round
  Director of Corporate Resources, Islington Council

• Jeremy Tuck
  Chief Information Officer, Islington Council

• Richard Blake
  Head of the Records Management Advisory Service, The National Archives

• Richard Jeffrey-Cook
  Chief Consultant, In-Form Consult Ltd.

• John Powell
  CEO and Co-founder, Alfresco Software

Event Presentations

You can view the presentations given on the day by clicking the links on the left-hand side of this page.