The principles

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The principles

The principles are built into a hierarchy. This hierarchy is important as the principles build on what has gone before, for example you cannot reuse information if it has not been managed and it is not fit for purpose, similarly it will not have been managed if it is not also valued.

The hierarchy is as follows:

Information is a valued asset
Information is managed
Information is protected
Information is fit for purpose
Information is standardised and linkable
Information is re-used
Public information is published
Citizens and businesses can access information about themselves

Last reviewed: 17/10/2023

Information is important to all organisations, it is needed to inform policy development and to make evidence based decisions, as well as to ensure accountability to the public. Recognising the importance of information to the public sector in 2011 the UK Government produced a set of information management principles to provide high level guidance to enable organisations across the public sector to draw their own local strategy and practices from a common set of principles and best practices.

This section describes those and Gloucestershire County Council’s (GCC) principles for good information management and sets out how we intend to interpret them at GCC taking into account our unique organisational context and information usage.

Information Management Principles PDF version

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