Your records: What to expect

What to expect when accessing records about yourself
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A New Look, A New #blogJune

We’re celebrating our new look by posting every day this month for blogJune
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From Lofty Pedestal to Courtroom Dock

Now Pell has been committed to trial, how does the Care Leaver community view what the future may bring? Guest Post by Frank Golding
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Locked Away – Children in the Insane Asylum

By the 1960s, the Queensland Government was using Wolston Park adult mental health facility to house children who were wards of the state.
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Cardinal Pell, the Church or Civil Society: Who’s on Trial?

The Pell case is currently being heard in Melbourne’s Magistrates’ Court, but what kind of impact does this type of trial have on Care Leavers? Cardinal Pell, the Church or Civil Society: Who’s on Trial? Guest Post by Frank Golding
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Support Service Series – Lotus Place, Qld

The Support Service Series showcases Find & Connect Services in each state. Here you can get an idea of what happens after you contact a service.
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Sydney’s ‘crisis of infanticide’ in 1873

The Infants’ Home (TIH) was one of the recipients of a RAD2 grant which the organisation used to arrange the digitisation of records and images relating to the Home, which are held at the State Library of New South Wales.  As a result of this work, TIH provided the Find & Connect web resource with new information so we could update our entries about the organisation and its records.
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Support Service Series – Wattle Place, NSW

The Support Service Series showcases Find & Connect Services in each state. Here you can get an idea of what happens after you contact a service.
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Support Service Series – Brolga Place, NT

The Support Service Series showcases Find & Connect Services in each state. Here you can get an idea of what happens after you contact a service.
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Are we in an ‘Age of Inquiry’ into institutional child abuse?

Inspired by the Find & Connect web resource, The Age of Inquiry is mapping institutional child abuse inquiries with the aim of developing a comprehensive, publicly available online database of historical child abuse inquiries globally.
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