TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article provides a case study that examines the relationship between records management and change management. The study focuses on a three‐year phase of intensive change management in a leading national children's charity, The Children's Society. During this period, records management became a key tool in the change management process, generating positive benefits for all stakeholders. Change causes uncertainty, fluidity and the distortion of organisational structures that can lead to the loss of business records and information. At The Children's Society records management introduced structures and systems into the change process, ensuring the retention of records to meet the needs of good governance, accountability, research and practice learning, and provide children and young people with future access to personal case file records.
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SN  - 0956-5698
DO  - 10.1108/09565690410566774
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09565690410566774
AU  - Wakeling Ian
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Preserving the organisation's life‐blood: organisational change and the role of records management in the charity sector: a case study of The Children's Society
T2  - Records Management Journal
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 116
EP  - 123
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -