In 2017, the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) undertook a comprehensive program to improve access to records related to Care Leavers. This is how those records became more accessible.
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Belinda Battley of NZ provided feedback on the draft terms of reference for NZ’s Royal Commission into child abuse. Here’s an update from that meeting.
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The records are called ‘Voluntary Children’s Homes Files’ and they document interactions between the Victorian state government and various institutions run by charitable or church organisations
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There are clear parallels between the Canadian and Australian archival professions in terms of Indigenous representation – but on a broader level, this session made it clear how important it is for people with the lived experience and knowledge to have appropriate access to relevant archives
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Archivists and radical empathy. What happens when the Care Leaver is at the centre of records access.
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Good recordkeeping and access regimes help hold governments and organisations to account, improve transparency and accountability, and enable justice.
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Creating neutral archives is an impossible task, given our cultural influences and the way those influences, structures and beliefs change over time
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Tweets reporting back from the 8th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, held at Monash University, May 28-30, 2018
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The Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was released on Friday 15 December 2017. This blog post is a quick response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission relating to recordkeeping.
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Inspired by the Find & Connect web resource, The Age of Inquiry is mapping institutional child abuse inquiries with the aim of developing a comprehensive, publicly available online database of historical child abuse inquiries globally.
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