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RADGrant Preservation & Supported Access

  • August 29, 2019
  • in Features, News
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St Joseph'sRecords 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

Growing Up In Care

  • August 15, 2019
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Records “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.”

How feedback shapes what you see on Find & Connect

  • July 25, 2019
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RecordsEvery feedback email received can help Find & Connect tell the full story of the experience of a childhood in “care”

RADGrant Heritage Service Records

  • July 11, 2019
  • in Features
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St John'sWhere records have been incorrectly described & catalogued, Care Leavers are unable to access information important to them. Anglicare Vic’s RADGrant will rectify this.

Records – files or the fabric of life?

  • June 28, 2019
  • in Features
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RecordsThe impact records can have on a Care Leaver, by Greg Baker, who experienced accessing records about his own life in “care”

RADGrant Ease of Access

  • June 14, 2019
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St Vincent's Boys' HomeMarist180’s RAD funded project will protect fragile record books and make accessing records even faster for past clients.

RADGrant Out of Home Records

  • May 28, 2019
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ChelmerHomeUnitingCare Queensland RADGrant will provide more information faster to Care Leavers

What do you think of Find & Connect?

  • May 9, 2019
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usabilitytestingiconThere’s not much time left to have your say into the future of www.findandconnect.gov.au. Take 10 minutes to do our 5 question survey & show us what works (& what doesn’t).
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RAD Grant Ballarat Orphanage & Children’s Home Records 1920-1986

  • April 24, 2019
  • in Features, News
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BallaratOrphanageCAFS Ballarat RAD funded project will digitise & index records about hundreds of children from Ballarat Orphanage & Children’s Home
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Adoptions

  • April 12, 2019
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usabilitytestingiconFinding information & records about forced adoption
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