Rights in records for children in out-of-home care

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10685

Keywords:

Children -- Institutional care, Archives -- Moral and ethical aspects, Archivists -- Education, Atawhai, Whare tukunga kōrero, Tikanga tangata

Abstract

This article looks at the social justice and human rights roles of archives and records keeping in documenting institutional welfare and abuse of vulnerable children. The importance of records to those who were in institutional care is highlighted. The situation in Australia is described. The author discusses her participation in archivists' conferences and workshops and the process of planning and running a workshop on the topuc in New Zealand. Findings from the workshop and the development of a community of interest and principles guiding records keepers are discussed.

Metadata reused from the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Author Biography

Belinda Battley, Archives New Zealand

Belinda Battley is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of IT at Monash University. Her research interests relate to participation and rights in recordkeeping and archival processes, the significance of place in recordkeeping, and participatory and grounded research methodologies. Belinda has a Master’s degree in Information Studies and Library Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. She works as an archivist and an archives and recordkeeping educator, and is a Council member for the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand.

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Published

2017-01-01

Issue

2017

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Articles