Stage 6: Reporting and review

Reviewing for relevance

As with any part of a program, make sure your monitoring activities are focused on those aspects of recordkeeping and the records management program that you need to know about.

Do not monitor something just because you have always done this in the past.

As your public office changes and the records management program develops, there will be other aspects about which it becomes more critical to obtain performance data.

Using trend data

Trend data is very useful in demonstrating improvements over time or causes for concern over time. This relies on consistently measuring the same activity over time using the same criteria. 

Keep these long-term measures under review to ensure that they are still relevant to your performance planning.