Over two decades of worldwide inquiries have highlighted the failure of past and present recordkeeping regimes and archival access frameworks to provide answers to fundamental questions - Who took me from my family and why? How were decisions made about where I ended up? How were decisions made to keep me in care? What about my family? What was I like as a child? - and of their propensity to heal rather than harm. A mountain of testimonies and submissions have described how those who have grown up in orphanages, children's Homes, foster and/or other forms of statutory care have found government, organisational and institutional archives wanting when they have turned to them to make sense of the dislocation, disconnection, neglect, trauma and abuse suffered during their childhoods.
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