In June 2018, Joanne Evans prepared submissions for the consultation on the implementation of the Victorian Child Information Sharing Scheme. See https://rights-records.it.monash.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FF-2018-Victorian-Child-Information-Sharing-Scheme-Submissions.pdf
In May 2018 the Setting the Record Straight Initiative developed a submission for the Review of the Family Law System by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). In our submission we highlighted: The need for legal processes that respect the information rights of adults and children. Ensuring reforms reflect the paramount importance of creating and maintaining recordkeeping policy, practices, and systems that afford all participants and, especially, children and families, agency in the creation, and…
In May 2018, Greg Rolan and Antonina Lewis developed a response for the Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child Initiative to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of the Family Law System Issues Paper. See https://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/subs/family-law_-28._setting_the_record_straight_for_the_rights_of_the_child.docx
In March 2018, Joanne Evans prepared a response on to proposed focus and scope of the Fourth Action Plan of the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-20. See https://rights-records.it.monash.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SRSRC-2018-Fourth-Action-Plan-of-National-Framework-for-Protecting-Australias-Children.pdf
In early February 2018 the Setting the Record Straight Initiative developed a submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee reviewing the Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017. See Submission to the Commonwealth Redress Bill 2017 In our submission we highlighted that: The scheme design needs to be informed by the records experiences of past redress schemes and ensure that increased demands for access to records are adequately resourced. Survivors to not be put at a…
In early December 2017, the Setting the Record Straight Initiative developed a submission to the consultation draft of the National Statement of Principles for Child Safe Organisations under development by the Australian Human Rights Commission. See Submission to the 2017 Draft National Statement of Principles for Child Safe Organisations In our response we have highlighted the role that recordkeeping plays in enacting the principle, suggested some recordkeeping specific action areas and provided some indicators of how they…
“It is our hope…that improvements to records and recordkeeping governance will strengthen child safe practices and better protect children from future harm, and, importantly, to help those searching for identity and those seeking justice for harm done.” – Commissioner Andrew Murray On Monday 4 September 2017, Tuart Place hosted a WA Workshop as part of the Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child Initiative. 85 participants gathered for the event – including care…
Following the Summit, a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was prepared. See Post Summit submission to the RCIRCSA It captured an initial draft of the communiqué and strategic plan, which was subsequently refined through feedback to become key outcomes from the event. The strategic plan highlights the need for to co-ordinate action and advocacy with research and development agendas in order to create a National Framework for Recordkeeping for Childhood Out…
Access to records must be made easier and less harmful A statement from the Bringing them Home report that does just that – brings home the impact records and recordkeeping processes have on people’s lives. It’s one that has had a huge impact on me as an archival and recordkeeping professional, educator and researcher. Although I do need to confess that it took a number of years for the realisation of the structural inequities in our existing…
Good to see that on the ninth anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the Queensland government chose to reaffirm their commitment to supporting family and personal history research. Twenty years on from the Bringing them Home Report, access to records has improved to be ‘easier and less harmful’. But also a reminder that more needs to be done, with Victoria in particular yet to implement a redress scheme and address the inter-generational ramifications of denial of connection to…
