Care Leaver Records

Refuge, Rescue and Reform: Voices of suffering and survival

Another book!  I’m very pleased to announce that a book Dot Wickham and I have been working on for a few years is finally at the printers and will be launched in Ballarat by Hon. Catherine King MP, the Minister for Transport on 24 May as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The publisher is […]

New Publication: That’s Not My Child

I’m pleased to announce that my book, That’s Not My Child: Five Generations on the Welfare Treadmill will be released on 12 March 2024 by Australian Scholarly Press under their Arcadia imprint.  Clink on the images to enlarge them.

Whose history is it, anyway?

Dr Frank Golding OAM This is a lightly edited version of the article which was published in IQ Magazine in September 2022 and was awarded RIMPA Global 2022 iQ Article of the Year Award (RIMPA is Records Information Managers Practitioners Alliance). The codification of children’s rights extends back to the early decades of the 20th […]

Article of the year

RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)3,297 followers3,297 followers 🏆✨ Celebrating Excellence at the RIMPA Live 2023 Black Tie Gala Dinner! ✨🏆 📚 iQ Article of the Year: A standing ovation for Dr Frank Golding OAM, whose powerful article “Who’s history is it, anyway?” delved into the lives of children […]

Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience

Opportunity for Care Leavers and others with direct experience of institutions and social work The British Journal of Social Work (BJSW) is inviting submissions to a special issue which will be written by people with lived experience to be published in Spring 2023. Context Harnessing the knowledge and expertise of people with lived experience is […]

PhD Thesis: Care Leavers Recovering Voice and Agency Through Counter-Narratives

My PhD thesis from Federation University Australia is now available on line. This is a very brief summary: Australia has a long history of removing children from their families when they are deemed to be neglected or ‘in moral danger’. Placed in orphanages, children’s Homes and foster ‘care’ out of the public gaze, these children […]

Whose History Is It, Anyway?

Whose History is it, Anyway? Global Records Access Information Exchange, 28 September 2021, Frank Golding OAM, PhD When I started thinking about what I could say in my allotted 10 minutes today, I thought I might discuss the first 5 of the 10 rights in the CLAN Charter of Rights in Records—which are grouped under […]

Linking with the Other Side of the World

This is an interim commentary. I want to add more to it when I have time. One of the things keeping me busy over the past several years is linking into and keeping up with Care Leavers organisations in other countries. There’s a great deal of interest in sharing experiences across the world. For a […]

Problems with Records Are Not Confined to the Past

Just published on line through Springer. Will be printed in Archival Science in due course. Below is a pre-publication version of the manuscript. Some minor changes will be found in the on line version which can be accessed at ‘Online First’: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 DOI  10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 “Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past”: A […]

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