Disrupting 'business as usual' governance for out-of-home care

People who have experienced statutory and alternative care systems need access to information about their families, communities and cultures to understand where they come from and to make informed decisions about what they want in their futures.

It’s time to rethink how information about childhood alternative care is managed to better meet the needs of everyone involved. Listening to care-experienced people, First Nations voices, and international perspectives helps ensure that research and policy recommendations can be integrated into practice settings and that important policy reforms are not lost in implementation.

Join us for this international discussion opening the International Care Day 2025 festival of events around the world with key First Nations, care-experienced and co-design researchers:

• McCreary Centre Society Youth Indigenous Research Team and Youth Research Academy, (Vancouver, Canada)

• The Charter of Lifelong Rights in Records for non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australian Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, including Stolen Generations – Emeritus Professor Sue McKemmish, Dr Rebecca Lyons, Dr Jacinta Walsh (Monash University)

• "Meaningful conversations...": Co-designing Real-time Rights-based Recordkeeping Governance – Dr Jade Purtell (Monash University), Lara Gerrand (Kids First Australia)