Child Care History Network and the Modern Records Centre, Warwick University
Child Care Archives :
Problems, Opportunities, and Consequences
to be held at the Research Exchange, Warwick University
on Thursday 10 June 2010
Programme
10.00 Registration
10.20 Mathew Thomson: Welcome and housekeeping announcements
10.30 Helen Ford: The day’s theme
Research
10.40 Maria Luddy: ‘Researching the history of Irish child care’
11.00 James King: ‘Cataloguing BASW’
11.20 Jonathan Reinarz: The use of children’s records for research
11.40 Refreshment break
Service Providers’ Views
12.00 Evelyn Daniel: ‘Keeping meaningful records in a time of budget cuts’
12.20 John Hughes, Action for Children: ‘The problems, opportunities and consequences of 140 years of History’
12.40 Ian Wakeling, Children’s Society: The use of child care records as teaching material (tbc)
13.00 Gudrun Limbrick, Sarah Pymer, Birmingham Archives: ‘Creating an oral history of Birmingham City Council children’s homes: the ethical challenges’
13.20 Lunch
The Impact on Care Leavers
14.20 Kate Roach, Barnardo’s : Access to records work with post care and post adopted adults – Responding to the individual
14.40 Peter Garsden, ACAL: How lack of records can hinder historical child abuse compensation cases”
15.00 Victoria Hull, Care Leavers’ Association: Access to Records: ‘The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw’
Workshops
15.20 Workshops
16.20 David Lane: Final plenary: Feedback from groups on key conclusions and action
16.30 Conclusion and refreshments
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