“This award is for organisations that have increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation” A background to Find & Connect’s Hamer Keegan Award
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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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Have you encountered terms, acronyms or abbreviations on child welfare records that have left you scratching your head? Are we missing some on the site? Help us build a guide to cut through the confusion around reading records.
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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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Guest post by the Child Migrants Trust on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) the majority of child migrants post-war were shipped to Australia.
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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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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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Following the end of the Royal Commission, 2018 is a time to take stock, plan the next phase of the website, and clarify what we hope to achieve this year..
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Before we shut down for the year we thought we’d share some of our achievements over 2017, made possible by the engagement of these groups and individuals.
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The Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was released on Friday 15 December 2017. This blog post is a quick response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission relating to recordkeeping.
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