For people who grew up in care, accessing records can be as devastating as it is important, but if the records are about you, you do have the right to annotate them
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The Records Access Documentation Grants have made many more records available to people who were in care as children
There were around 500 000 children in care in Australia from the 1920’s to the 1980’s. Now they have a new way of filling in the gaps of their childhood memories.
People who spent time in St Christopher’s Home in Taree as children will now have faster, better access to records.
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
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
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”
UnitingCare Queensland RADGrant will provide more information faster to Care Leavers
CAFS Ballarat RAD funded project will digitise & index records about hundreds of children from Ballarat Orphanage & Children’s Home
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