Care Leavers Australia-wide now have access to CLAN’s Orphanage Museum through their new online collection.
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
LONG READ: Our submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
The Records Access Documentation Grants have made many more records available to people who were in care as children
The 16/11/2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants
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
“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.”
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