Compassion and Compliance: Releasing Records to Care-Leavers under Privacy and Freedom of Information Legislation

Murray, Suellen

doi:10.1017/s1474746413000328

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“…Consequently, the bureaucratic and uncaring way in which requests are sometimes fulfilled can lead to frustration, confusion and renewed trauma (Clarke & Kent, 2017; Swain & Musgrove, 2012). In particular, records are often heavily redacted, removing the so‐called ‘third party information’ relating to family members, carers and friends, reinforcing childhood experiences of disempowerment (Murray, 2014). These issues are not only confined to the UK but are international, as analogous research in Australia and Canada attests (Evans, McKemmish, & Rolan, 2019; Ghaddar, 2016; Wilson & Golding, 2016; Goddard, Murray, & Duncalf, 2013; Royal Commission, 2017).…”

Section: Records and Recordkeeping Practicesmentioning

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Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Hoyle

Shepherd

Lomas

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Child & Family Social Work

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In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggests that thousands of requests to view records for this purpose are made each year in England under the subject access provisions of data protection legislation. This article reports the findings of MIRRA, a participatory research project on the memory and identity dimensions of social care recordkeeping. Drawing on data collected during interviews and focus groups with adult care leavers, the study explores the motives and experiences of careexperienced people who access their records in England. Findings show the practical and cultural challenges they face when doing so and the resulting impacts on wellbeing. The study suggests that the development of person-centred approaches to recordkeeping in social work, which focus on the perspectives and experiences of the individual, could better support the lifelong memory and identity needs of careexperienced people.

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Section: Records and Recordkeeping Practicesmentioning

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Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Hoyle

Shepherd

Lomas

et al. 2020

Child & Family Social Work

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“…The limited capacities of records to fulfil the needs of stakeholders are compounded by the process of redaction at the point of access (Murray 2014). The summary removal of so-called third party information works to obscure the details that a person needs to make sense of their history (Kirton et al 2011).…”

Section: Child Social Care Recordkeeping In Englandmentioning

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Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

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In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and associated practitioners. A complex, fragmented legislative and regulatory framework governs the creation and use of these records at the national level. Under UK law, a 'care file' must be retained for at least 75 years, so that a substantial legacy of care data is held across the public, voluntary and private sectors. MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access, a participatory research project co-produced with care leavers, investigated recordkeeping practices in child social care from multiple perspectives. Interviews, focus groups and workshops with stakeholders identified critical failings in the creation, use, management and access to care records, which do not account for the needs and capabilities of multiple stakeholders. These failings have a direct impact on the well-being and health of care-experienced people throughout their lives. MIRRA researchers developed a human-centred participatory recordkeeping approach to child social care, which this article describes. The approach combines the participatory continuum model (Rolan in Arch Sci 17(3):195-225. https ://doi.org/10.1007/ s1050 2-016-9267-7, 2017 and the capabilities approach to social work, rooting child social care recordkeeping in information rights principles. The article makes a contribution to the literature that discusses archival science within a human rights and ethics framework and reflects on trauma-informed practice for information professionals. It also provides guidance on practice improvements for child social care recording.

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Compassion and Compliance: Releasing Records to Care-Leavers under Privacy and Freedom of Information Legislation

Cited by 6 publications

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Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people

Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping

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