Storage of old documentation – what to shred?
 

As you will see on your survey this year one of the questions is about Awarding Bodies abandoning communal JCQ stationary and going back to their individual exam stationary. AQA have already done this and in a recent JCQ presentation others are predicted to follow suit. 
 

So clear those selves! The usual practice on keeping exam documentation is to keep it for one historic year just in case there needs to be any follow up on results, courses and attendance lists (for example – a boy was accused of burglary by the police but his kept attendance register proved he was in an exam at the time). An exceptional situation but this does illustrate the importance of keeping various documents. Just in case!
 

SEN documentation must be dealt with differently as some students may fall outside the usual pattern of course activity and therefore require you to hold on to certain documents which may go back a few years. You might choose to shred most of the documents associated with the recent exam cohort but keep a series of files on certain individuals or groups who might potentially come back into the exam system at a later date and therefore will need support.
 

You may also have to keep certain documents related to various cases which may need future investigation or create fall out from difficulties associated with requests related to results, personal difficulties with students, parents or subject staff who have left and are no longer contactable.