How feedback shapes what you see on Find & Connect

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RADGrant Heritage Service Records

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?

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

What do you think of Find & Connect?

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

BallaratOrphanageCAFS Ballarat RAD funded project will digitise & index records about hundreds of children from Ballarat Orphanage & Children’s Home
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Adoptions

usabilitytestingiconFinding information & records about forced adoption
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British Child Migrants Payment Scheme

childmigrantThe British government will compensate Former Child Migrants for the “misguided” program that saw around 4000 sent to Australia
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RADGrant – Photo Access

magdalenlaundryGood Shepherd’s RAD funded Photo Access Project will improve access to photographic, media and contextual information in their archives
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Righting past wrongs

childsummonsHistorical care and protection orders are no longer treated as criminal convictions in Victoria
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Christmas at “Home”

Wayne Lewis, who spent time in “care” as a child gives a sense of what Christmas could be like, both in “care,” and when actually cared for, growing up out of home.
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