The ARC Discovery Grant funded Rights in Records by Design project (DP170100198) is investigating the design of participatory, rights-based, recordkeeping and archiving infrastructure. We are aiming to develop a conceptual model for Lifelong Living Archives for Childhood Out-of-home Care that are better able to meet lifelong identity, memory and accountability needs.
As part of this research, we are conducting a survey to capture the views of recordkeeping and other professionals in the out-of-home Care sector on capacities to implement the Recordkeeping Principles for Child Safety and Wellbeing (Recommendation 8.4) handed down by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in December 2017, and the Records Access Principles and Guidelines developed in 2015 as part of the DSS’s Find & Connect Services and Projects.
We would like to understand how these principles are being applied throughout the sector, any barriers to their adoption, and other issues that surface in their implementation. We also plan to repeat this survey on an annual basis to track views on how capacities to implement these principles improve over time.
This survey is being conducted by Associate Professor Joanne Evans and Dr Greg Rolan from the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University and has been approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Project ID: 16538).
Participation involves voluntarily completing an anonymous survey, reflecting on the capacity in your context to implement these principles. Note that this is not a formal response from your organisation, but one based on your individual experience as a recordkeeping or other professional, working in any out-of-home Care context. The survey should take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete, depending on your responses. You do not have to finish the survey in one go; you can pause and continue at a later time.
To complete the survey then please go to this direct link https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8kQwdBbJdhm9Plr
More details about this research, including an overview of the questions are available at https://rights-records.it.monash.edu/about-the-initiative/research-development-agenda/rights-in-records-by-design/rk-principles-survey/
If you have any questions about the research then please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Kind regards
Joanne & Greg
Associate Professor Joanne Evans
Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Faculty of Information Technology
Phone: +61 3 9903 1277
Email: joanne.evans@monash.edu
Dr Greg Rolan
Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Faculty of Information Technology
Phone: +61 3 9903 31943
Email: greg.rolan@monash.edu
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A final call for those working with records relating to childhood out of home care experiences to consider contributing to our Recordkeeping Principles for Child Safety and Wellbeing Survey Closes on the 30 November, but if you are keen to contribute and that deadline is a problem then do let me know (email - joanne.evans@monash.edu)
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne & Greg