Endorsement
Endorsements of the Charter
Endorsement indicates support of the ambitions, aspirations and intentions of the Charter, and to seek opportunities to improve recordkeeping for children in out-of-home care. To assure wide acceptance and thorough discussion with stakeholders, we invited organisations to endorse.
CREATE Foundation
Care Leavers Australasia Network
Public Advocate and Children and Young People Commissioner, ACT
Office of the Children’s Commissioner, Northern Territory
Commissioner of Children and Young People, WA
South Australian Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People
NSW Information Commissioner
The Charter is endorsed in its promotion of information access rights
NSW Privacy Commissioner
The Charter is endorsed in its promotion of information access rights
Community Services Directorate, ACT Government
Child and Family Services, Ballarat
Australian Society of Archivists
Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (RIMPA)
Archives New Zealand
Public Record Office of Victoria
State Records South Australia
State Archives and Records, NSW
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities (CAARA)
Peak body for Australasian government recordkeeping and archival authorities
CAARA endorses in principle the Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care.
All Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local public institutions and care providers are strongly encouraged to commit to the ideals and aspirations of the Charter, including:
- Participatory rights for people in care, and care leavers to contribute to records of care.
- Rights to be remembered or forgotten in the records of care.
- Individual and collective rights to cultural, family and self-identity, and to have one’s cultural or community recordkeeping practices recognised in legal, bureaucratic and other processes that involve records creation.
- Disclosure rights relating to knowing and being informed of where your records are held, being informed about the type(s) of records held about you, being informed of when and why others are given access to your records; and knowing when and why records about you are destroyed.
- Access rights relating to lifelong access to your records in a timely way and at low-cost, having a say in intergenerational access, consenting to access and use of your records by others.
CAARA acknowledges that the capability and capacity of organisations to meet the ideals and aspirations of the Charter will vary, and that organisations may take different approaches to achieving this goal.
This endorsement of the Charter indicates CAARA’s support for the ambitions of the Charter and organisations engaging with the people that are, or have been, entrusted to their care by prioritising, promoting and resourcing actions that support the Charter.