In May 2017, a national summit was convened to strategise about the recordkeeping and archiving needs for childhood out-of-home care, with a view to ensuring that the systems set up to protect children and young people from abuse and neglect do not themselves cause harm. Approximately 180 people gathered for “Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child”. Click here to access copies of the communique, strategic plan, and summit report. You are welcome to provide comment on the strategic plan, and to develop activities for promoting, refining and developing the plan. Really setting the record straight for the rights of the child encompasses discussing how you or your organisation might get involved in the Initiative, and/or have an event with a speaker from the Initiative. Find out more about the Setting the Record Straight so you can play your part in recordkeeping and archiving systems that meet the lifelong identity, memory and accountability needs of children and young people in child protection systems.
