Private owners encouraged to deposit records
Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: The National Archives
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We recommend that, once a copy of all material has been placed on a Digital Archive, private owners - including the FA and SWFC - be encouraged to deposit original materials to an appropriate archive in the Distributed Permanent Archive. Private records relating to the disaster, including fan-produced materials, should also be deposited.
Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →
Response — verbatim from government
●The National Archives
No formal government response published. Private organisations including the FA and Sheffield Wednesday FC contributed documents to the Panel's disclosure process. The encouragement of further deposits of private records is ongoing but no formal mechanism has been established.
The National Archives · 1 Dec 2012
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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