Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care
Through concentrated advocacy from the Care Leaver community and the findings of many State and National Inquiries, the recordkeeping profession has been made aware of the lifelong problems arising from inadequate or inappropriate records and records practices faced by children who have been, or still are, in Out of Home Care in Australia. The archival community has responded to challenges associated with access to older records. But what is needed to create more foundational reform of recordkeeping in Out of Home Care contexts and to prevent the continual recurrence of the known problems?
The Monash Rights in Records by Design project has developed a Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care based in international human rights to establish an aspirational environment of change in recordkeeping cultures to benefit children in Out of Home Care. Moving from an aspirational Charter to implementation practice is challenging, and a set of resources has been developed to assist organisations providing services to children to approach these challenges.
This webinar discusses these initiatives and ongoing advocacy to support the work to improve lifelong recordkeeping for children in Out of Home Care.
This webinar was presented by the ASA on Wednesday 16th March 2022
Presenters
The webinar is presented by Emeritus Professor Sue McKemmish and Barbara Reed.
Barbara Reed of Recordkeeping Innovation is a consultant in the field of records, archives and information management with more than 25 years industry experience in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Active in the fields of recordkeeping metadata and standardisation, this extends to deep interest in archival data models and their application in the digital world. She has written standards, policy and guidance for a range of jurisdictions and organisations, including topics such as access frameworks, metadata and digitisation. She has taught archives and recordkeeping at a range of Australian Universities, cultivates research involvement through a range of projects and is a joint author of the recently published text, Recordkeeping Informatics for a Networked Age.
Joining Monash in 1990, Sue McKemmish’s research focused on Records Continuum theory and conceptual modelling, and recordkeeping metadata. Her Records Continuum theory-building and modelling work has continued throughout her career. More recently, she has focused on community-centred, participatory recordkeeping and archiving research relating to rights in records, complemented by ethics of care, in response to advocacy by those with lived experience of Out-of-Home Care, and First Nations peoples in Australia. Developing inclusive, reflexive research design and practice in partnership with communities has been a critical to part of this research.
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