The new www.findandconnect.gov.au is live
Thanks to many of you, the Map of Children’s Homes has more photos and information than before.
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.
The different types of movements, changes and dislocations that children experienced while in ‘care’, impacted on the creation of, and later access to, their records
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If you haven’t done the site survey yet, now’s the perfect time! We need your voice to help us build the find & connect web resource of all our dreams. And it’ll only take a few minutes.
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Find & Connect is such a comprehensive resource because of the generosity and work of former residents of Homes & institutions. Here are some things we’ve done with their help
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Accessing the information in the Ryan Report, Ireland’s Commission into child abuse
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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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In our first ever podcast, we cover convenient fires and floods, often held responsible for missing Care Leaver records. But are natural disasters to blame for records not being where they should be?
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The interactive Child Welfare Timeline was introduced to the Find & Connect web resource last year to provide a more engaging experience for people interested in an overview of the major events and legislation in the history of child welfare in Australia.
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