The Information and Records Management Society’s Local Government Classification Retention Scheme (LGCRS) database developed by the Genuine Group provides an online, web-based Records Retention Reference Tool for local authorities in the United Kingdom, the legislation is continuously updated and the classification scheme amended to suit the local government requirements. The scheme is based on the RMS (now IRMS) Local Government Classification Scheme (LGCS) developed by records management society members. The LGCRS is mapped to UK legislation and regulations specific to Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales as well as the Channel Islands and Isle of Man; the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV); and, the Local Government Service List (LGSL).
The LGCRS is now available in a.k.a.® Information Governance Software.
a.k.a.® provides out of the box functionality for managing taxonomies, file plans, business classification schemes, thesauri, and records retention and disposition schedules. With a.k.a.® local authorities can edit the database as they require and export the database from aka using the XML, CSV and HTML outputs available.
The LGCRS is available as an on-line read only database from the IRMS and the Genuine Group or in a.k.a.® format from Synercon Europe and the Genuine Group.