Future Directions in Rights-based Recordkeeping for Out-of-Home Care Symposium
While system reforms for Out-of-Home Care and transitions from Care are ongoing, records and recordkeeping issues are continuing to impact on Care experiences and outcomes.
On the afternoon of the 14 November 2024, researchers, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners interested in reviewing recent rights-based recordkeeping research initiatives came together to discuss how the profile of recordkeeping within debates about Care system reforms may be raised by co-ordinated action and advocacy.
The Symposium Program began with a series of short presentations highlighting various aspects of rights-based recordkeeping research.
LEVERAGING HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORKS FOR CARE RECORDKEEPING
Leveraging Human Rights Frameworks – Professor Melissa Castan
Paterson 2024 Ways forward in improving access to information – Professor Moira Paterson
The Enshittification of the Internet (and AI) – Dr Greg Rolan
Pumps and Poetry – the nexus between records, rights and the legal system – Melanie Senior, Monash PhD student (*)
CO-DESIGNING RIGHTS BASED RECORDKEEPING
‘Meaningful conversations…’: the Real-time Rights-based Recordkeeping Governance Project – Dr Jade Purtell, Lara Gerrand and Anna
Charter of Lifelong Rights in Records for Indigenous, Torres Strait Islander and Australian Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, including Stolen Generations – Dr Rebecca Lyon, Emerita Professor Sue McKemmish and Barbara Reed
More than Our Childhoods: the Care Leaver Activism Timeline – A/Prof Nell Musgrove
UCL MIRRA Project Update – Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (*)
RE-CONCEPTUALISING CARE RECORDKEEPING SYSTEMS
MySSy – My Care Recordkeeping System – Rhiannon Abeling and A/Prof Joanne Evans
Caring Records: Understanding the barriers to child-centred recordkeeping – Dr Martine Hawkes and A/Prof Joanne Evans
‘Somebody has to be crazy about that kid’: Speculating on the transformative recordkeeping potential of the caring corporate parent – Mya Ballin, Monash PhD Student
Ethical Data Principles and Systems – Dr Greg Rolan and Dr Nina Lewis
(*) not able to present on the day
This was followed by a discussion on ways in which transformative recordkeeping research and practice agendas might be presented and promulgated for 2025 and beyond.
RESEARCH
What do we know about Care recordkeeping?
What don’t we know about Care recordkeeping?
What research might address the gaps?
Who should be involved?
ADVOCACY
Who values rights-based Care recordkeeping?
Who doesn’t, but should?
Who has the power to change Care recordkeeping?
What do they need to know and hear?
Who do they need to hear it from?
How can we get them to hear it?
REFORM
What improvements to existing recordkeeping processes, practices and systems are needed?
What technological enhancements would support rights-based recordkeeping?
TRANSFORM
What transformations of frameworks, processes, practices and systems are required?
What power structures need to change? How?
What technological transformations might enable rights-based, participatory recordkeeping?
Real-time Rights-based Recordkeeping Governance is funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant DP200100017. The Chief Investigators are Associate Professor Joanne Evans (Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University), Professor Moira Paterson (Faculty of Law, Monash University), Professor Melissa Castan (Faculty of Law & Castan Centre for Human Rights, Monash University), and Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (Department of Information Studies, University College London).
