Guest Blog: The importance of gaining access to information about out of home care has been recognised with the launch of a new guideline by the NSW Information Commissioner
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Records that have been improperly stored are often damaged & difficult to access. MacKillop’s RAD funded project will protect, index & digitise records of more than 2000 children
“Next thing I was in a ‘centre’. I was given new/old clothes to change into out back of some place… It smelled of old clothes.”
Every feedback email received can help Find & Connect tell the full story of the experience of a childhood in “care”
Where records have been incorrectly described & catalogued, Care Leavers are unable to access information important to them. Anglicare Vic’s RADGrant will rectify this.
The impact records can have on a Care Leaver, by Greg Baker, who experienced accessing records about his own life in “care”
Marist180’s RAD funded project will protect fragile record books and make accessing records even faster for past clients.
UnitingCare Queensland RADGrant will provide more information faster to Care Leavers
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CAFS Ballarat RAD funded project will digitise & index records about hundreds of children from Ballarat Orphanage & Children’s Home
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