More than 130,000 boxes holding about
1000 pages each of records from historical children's homes and juvenile
justice facilities in NSW are being scanned and indexed. It adds to an index of child protection records for 2.8 million people in NSW.
Victoria's human services department held 80 linear kilometres of ward records spanning 150 years, much of which had not been examined or indexed as recently as 2012. More than one million paper-based records have now been indexed.
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/20/17/17/costly-efforts-to-improve-access-to-files
Victoria's human services department held 80 linear kilometres of ward records spanning 150 years, much of which had not been examined or indexed as recently as 2012. More than one million paper-based records have now been indexed.
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/20/17/17/costly-efforts-to-improve-access-to-files