Future Directions in Rights-based Recordkeeping for Out-of-Home Care Symposium
The Real-time Rights-based Recordkeeping Governance Symposium took place at Monash University on the 14 November 2024. This important event gathered researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore the role of rights-based recordkeeping in reforming out-of-home care systems. The symposium focused on how recordkeeping practices can influence the experiences and outcomes for children in care, highlighting recent research and ongoing initiatives.
The Symposium Program presented with a series of talks on topics such as leveraging human rights frameworks in recordkeeping, co-designing rights-based systems, and re-imagining how care records are handled to ensure children's rights are respected. Notable presentations included insights into the challenges and potential solutions to improve access to care records, as well as discussions about empowering care leavers by giving them lifelong access to their records.
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
The symposium concluded with a collaborative discussion on the future of rights-based recordkeeping, covering key areas such as advocacy, research, reform, and transformation.
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).
Graphic illustration by Lucinda Gifford from Sketch Group
For more information, visit the project website.