Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MacNeil, Heather
• Duff, Wendy
• Dotiwalla, Alicia
• Zuchniak, Karolina

Titel

“If there are no records, there is no narrative”: the social justice impact of records of Scottish care-leavers

Ist Teil von

• Archival Science, 2018-03, Vol.18 (1), p.1-28

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 2004, the Scottish Parliament commissioned an independent review of abuse in children’s residential establishments between 1950 and 1995. In 2007, the review’s findings were published in a report entitled Historical Abuse Systemic Review: Residential Schools and Children’s Homes in Scotland 1950 to 1995 , also known as the Shaw Report . In this article, the Shaw Report provides the jumping off point for a case study of the social justice impact of records. Drawing on secondary literature, interviews, and care-related records, the study identifies narratives that speak to the social justice impact of care records on care-leavers seeking access to them; it also assesses the potential of the surviving administrative records to serve as a foundation on which to construct historical narratives that speak more generally to the experience of children in residential care.