Care leavers advocate for rights of the child in recordkeeping
Frank Golding was in his late 50s when he first read the records of his
childhood.
childhood.
It took 10 years to compile his files from the Department of Health and Human Services and the institutions he lived in, and finally reading them provoked anger.
“There were redactions I found hard to understand and accept… I pushed hard to have the decisions appealed,” Mr Golding said.
“One of the records I got that came through from a state file said one of our foster mothers couldn’t keep us because of our habits. At that stage I was probably two-years-old. I have had to struggle all these years to think about what those habits could have been.”
Mr Golding grew up in out of home care at the Ballarat Orphanage, the Andrew Kerr Memorial Home in Mornington and three foster care placements.
Now 80, he still struggles to comprehend why the department continues to keep his records in their possession.
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“I asked them why do you keep a record about me? I am now 80 years of age. Isn’t it mine? ‘No’, they say, ‘it is not’. But they can’t give me a reason why they are keeping it,” Mr Golding said.
They are determined to transform the record keeping system for children in out of home care.
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