Scottish Care Archives and RecordsIntroduction

Andrew Kendrick

Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 1

Memory, Narrative and Identity: The Needs of Care Leavers

15th May 2013, Collins Building, Richmond St., Glasgow

What are the needs of care leavers

What are the issues in identifying and cataloguing archives and personal records

What are the technical and design issues in developing a web-based archive and directory

How can we progress a national resource in Scotland

Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 1

Memory, Narrative and Identity: The Needs of Care Leavers

Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 1

Memory, Narrative and Identity: The Needs of Care Leavers

Create opportunities for knowledge exchange between care leavers, practitioners, academics

Child care professionals, historians, archivists and records keepers, information scientists, genealogists, web-designers

Highlight the issues for adult care leavers and those currently in care

Questions - Morning

Needs of care leavers in developing web-based resource

What information would be useful to be held in the archive and directory

What other questions or issues to take forward to future sessions/seminars

Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 1

Memory, Narrative and Identity: The Needs of Care Leavers

Questions – Afternoon

Needs of care leavers in accessing records and information

What information do care leavers find useful

What information would be useful in the archive and directory

What needs to be done

Reclaiming Lost Childhoods – Seminar 1

Memory, Narrative and Identity: The Needs of Care Leavers