Child Care Records: use and access

A day conference organised by the Child Care History Network, the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick

held at the Wolfson Research Exchange, Warwick University on Thursday June 10, 2010 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Talks and PowerPoints presented here with the permission of the speakers.

1. Mathew Thomson and Helen Ford : Welcome to Warwick University, Introductory Remarks, and an introduction to the Modern Records Centre

Session 1: Research

2. Maria Luddy :Researching the history of Irish child care

3. James King : Cataloguijng BASW: The archives of the British Association of Social Workers

4. Jonathan Reinarz: The use of children’s records for research

Session 2: Service Providers’ Views

5. Evelyn Daniel : Keeping meaningful records in a time of budget cuts

6. John Hughes, The problems, opportunities and consequences of a 140 years of history: Action for Children

7. Gudrun Limbrick & Sarah Pymer, Creating an oral history of Birmingham City Council children's homes: the ethical challenges

Session 3: The Impact on Care Leavers

8. Martine King and Kate Roach, Access to records: work with post-care and post-adopted adults. Responding to the individual. Barnardo's experience.

9. Peter Garsden, How lack of records can hinder historical child abuse compensation cases

10. Jim Goddard, Access to records: The missing piece of the jigsaw