Identifying and Rescuing Archives and Records at Risk

The Insolvency Monitoring Overview guidance document below, and accompanying presentation, provide an overview of the process of rescuing business records made vulnerable due to financial distress, covering the stages of research and monitoring up to the acquisition of records from an insolvent company. It includes a flowchart outlining key steps in the process, guidance on corporate insolvency terminology, and information about contacting insolvency practitioners.

The guidance is primarily intended for use for by archivists and archive services in Wales but may be useful to anybody with an interest in rescuing records from insolvent companies.

Further resources are also available below, including guidance reproduced by permission of the Crisis Management Team, a template for identifying records at risk, and resources published by external bodies.