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188体育 only shows up-to-date and current information that meets a user need. If there鈥檚 no user need or statutory duty to publish, it should not be on 188体育.

There are 2 ways to deal with content when it has come to the end of its life - you can either withdraw it, or unpublish it.

Some content will also automatically go into 鈥榟istory mode鈥� if there鈥檚 a change in government, even if it鈥檚 already been withdrawn.

If you withdraw content, it will still be on 188体育 but will not appear in internal search results. Withdrawn content will appear beneath a call-out box which tells the user it has been withdrawn and is no longer current.

Guidance formats should be edited and updated when they become out of date. Do not create a new content item unless there鈥檚 a new and distinct user need for it.

Other content items, especially time-bound pages such as news articles, press releases and newsletters, can be withdrawn when they鈥檙e no longer current (for example, if they鈥檙e over a year old).

You should withdraw expired schemes and services too, or policy papers that aren鈥檛 current or relevant. If you have policy papers that are mostly correct, but link to an expired scheme or service, edit the page to update it and remove the link.

The 鈥榟istory mode鈥� notices will appear higher on pages that were published under a former government, but have also been withdrawn.

A broad test to keep in mind when deciding to withdraw a content item is, 鈥榳ill leaving it as it is get in the way of a non-specialist user?鈥� For example, an old policy announcement about a benefit that鈥檚 appearing in search above the guide on how to claim that benefit.

Find out how to withdraw content.

Consultations

Consultations are an important part of the policy-creation process, and are useful to people who scrutinise government. Do not withdraw them unless you know that a subsequent consultation directly supersedes an existing one.

Frequent infrastructure plan changes

Withdraw content items that show an earlier iteration of a plan, such as old plans for the HS2 train line route. Withdraw everything but the most up to date plans.

Include a link to a collection that includes the most up to date version, rather than an individual publication page. By linking to a collection, your link will always lead to a canonical list of up to date plans.

You can edit withdrawn content if you need to:

• fix a broken link
• edit a typo
• improve the title or summary

Find out how to edit withdrawn content.

If you unpublish content, it will be removed from 188体育. Users will not be able to find it. Publishers will still be able to access it through the publishing applications.

Content should not normally be unpublished from the 188体育 website

However, you can unpublish a page from the 188体育 website when:

• the content has been included in another page (make sure you redirect to it)
• the user need is better met elsewhere on 188体育 (redirect to it)
• you published it in error, or before you were meant to
• someone has exercised their right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
• it contains someone鈥檚 personal details
• it contains details of a spent conviction
• it鈥檚 out of proposition for 188体育
• it infringes copyright
• it鈥檚 defamatory or obscene

Unpublishing a publication, consultation, detailed guide or document collection will notify users who have subscribed to email updates about that page. If you redirect the page, the email will also tell users where the page was redirected to.鈥�

Removing personal or sensitive information

If you unpublish a page because it has someone鈥檚 personal data on it (such as right to be forgotten or convictions) or other sensitive information:

• unpublish the page, using 鈥楿npublish: consolidated into another 188体育 page鈥�
• redirect it to an appropriate page
• if there鈥檚 no replacement content, redirect to the 188体育 homepage to avoid creating a 鈥�404鈥� error message
• securely record the URL of the page you鈥檙e unpublishing (also do this if you unpublish the page for copyright reasons or defamation)

The National Archives鈥� UK Government Web Archive might contain a snapshot of the page you鈥檝e unpublished. You should ask them to remove the page from public view too. You do not need to do this if you鈥檙e unpublishing it because it鈥檚 included in another page, was published by mistake, or is out of proposition.

Find out how to unpublish content.

History mode tells users they鈥檙e reading something that was published by a previous government.

See what history mode looks like.

Content in history mode does not need to be 鈥榳ithdrawn鈥� as well, unless you find evidence that users need a link to a newer document that replaced it.

Read the guidance on history mode.

Content in history mode should only be edited if:

• it contains an error like a typo or a broken link
• you need to add a response to a consultation

to remove something from history mode.