Please contact Catriona Milne, Manager Uniting Heritage Service:
Postal address: Locked Bag 8, A’Beckett Street PO, Melbourne VIC 8006
Phone: 0402 969 621
Email: Catriona.Milne@vt.uniting.org
Website: https://www.unitingvictas.org.au/services/family-services/heritage-service/
These records are held by Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited (2017 - current).
The records of UnitingCare Harrison relate to the community services programs run by the agency and its predecessors from 1960 to 2017.
Former residents (and their families) should contact the Uniting Heritage Service to find information, and access personal files. The Uniting Heritage Service is a free service that helps individuals access information about them or family members, as well as access appropriate support should they choose. Heritage Service staff prefer to release records to past residents or their family members in person, where possible, in order to give greater meaning and context to the information.
These records comprise contextual and administrative records such as annual reports, minutes of meetings and newsletters.
Unfortunately, there are very few records relating to residents. In the past, Harrison Community Services had a practice of destroying client files after a period of 7 years and it would seem that the client files from Harrison House and Harrison Youth Services were destroyed as part of this practice. However, all client records relating to out-of-home care created after 2004 are retained indefinitely.