Information type	Keep for	Keep from	Legislation or business reason
User research data	2 years	Creation	Business need
User authorisation officers list	Current	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
User authorisation profiles	Current only	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
User authorisation – key fobs	Current only	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
User authorisation access requests	Permanent	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
Software licences – perpetual	Current year plus 6	Termination	Limitation Act 1980
Software licences – named	Current year plus 6	Termination	Limitation Act 1980
Software licences – concurrent	Current year plus 6	Termination	Limitation Act 1980
Service level agreements – external providers	Current year plus 6	Termination	Limitation Act 1980
Technical knowledge base	Current	Creation	Local decision
Service level agreements – schools (SCOMIS)	Current year plus 6	Termination	Business need
School computer incident logs – SCOMIS	5 years	Creation	Local decision
Technology communications to schools – SCOMIS	5 years	Creation	Local decision
Network maintenance	Permanant	Creation	Service decision
Internet archive-www.devon.gov.uk	Permanent	Creation	Lord Chancellors code of practice on the management of records issued under Section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (2009)
Service desk support logs	Permanent	Creation	Business need
Hardware contracts	6 years	Termination	Limitation Act 1980
Gov connect code of connection – compliance	Current only	Creation	Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the Management of Records issued under Section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (2009)
Equipment disposal logs	Permanent	Creation	Local decision
Disaster recovery plans	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System versioning	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System user manuals	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System source codes	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System failure reports	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System development	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System design and construction	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System configurations	Until succeeded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
System change control	Until superseded	Creation	Local Government Act 1972
Equipment disposal	Permanent	Creation	Local business need

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