The National Archives is seeking your views

The National Archives is seeking your views

28 June 2006

The National Archives is currently consulting stakeholders on the working draft of its new vision for the next five years. This includes plans for our public services.

We intend to relocate The National Archives' family records services and staff from the Family Records Centre in Islington to our main site in Kew, by the end of 2008.  This move allows us to consolidate our reading rooms and public services on one site and to develop these services to continue to cater for all our readers, including family historians and academics. We shall also further develop online access to our records, either pre-digitised or digitised on demand.  Most of the records currently available at the Family Records Centre are already online so that readers can access them at a time and place convenient to them. We are working closely with the General Register Office to provide joint services online in the way we have done at the Family Records Centre.

We are committed to providing a continued family history service from Kew, and to work with, and listen to, our users in developing our onsite and online services over the coming years.

We should like to hear your views about these developments and we shall take your views into account in developing our Strategy which will be announced in October 2006.

Please send your responses to ceo@nationalarchives.gov.uk