Aged Care – our submission to the Royal Commission

Good Shepherd
LONG READ: Our submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

Fear, trauma & deinstitutionalising aged care

Barrington Lodge
Research by the Find & Connect web resource has identified a cross over between historical children’s homes and new & existing aged care facilities

Opening Times for Find & Connect Services

xmas at Perth Hospital
The Find & Connect Support Services will be taking a break over the xmas-new year period, here’s when to contact them what you need to know.

Goodbye 2019

children waving
With a little help from our friends (thank you!) we’ve achieved a lot this year – here are some of the things we’re proud of

Recording RAD 2019

RAD results The Records Access Documentation Grants have made many more records available to people who were in care as children

A decade since “sorry”

Children for adoption The 16/11/2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants

10th Anniversary of the National Apology – Events

pinTo mark the 10th Anniversary of the National Apology, Find & Connect services around the country are holding events, listed here

Map of Children’s Homes

map 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.

RADGrant Indexing and Documentation of St. Christopher’s Home Records

Children in the back of a tractor driven wagon People who spent time in St Christopher’s Home in Taree as children will now have faster, better access to records.

Supporting access being granted to institutional care records in NSW – Information Commissioner Guideline

Woodlands boys home 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