Innovative ways to fill gaps in records are providing important details to former residents of institutions where records are missing
Listening to people who experienced care provides deep insights into life in the child welfare system.
Babies, usually from unwed mothers, were handed in to the Foundling Hospital until 1954. They were registered with a number & given a new name to disguise any connections to their birth families.
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Accessing the information in the Ryan Report, Ireland’s Commission into child abuse
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Today we have a guest post from Alison Atkinson-Phillips, discussing her research into memorials to lived experience in Australia.
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