MIRRA Interviews

In total, over 80 individuals provided
data to the project between March 2018 and June 2019. These include 21 adult
care leavers. Demographic information was not formally collected from
contributors, as the project focused on qualitative narratives of personal
experience. However, detailed biographical information could be gleaned from
their testimonies. The care leavers ranged in age from 18 to 85 years old; all
had experienced foster and/or residential care in England between the late
1940s and 2018. Approximately one third had been in the care of voluntary
organizations for all or some of their care experience, and the others
exclusively looked after by local authorities. They were in care for varying
lengths of time, in different parts of the country and for different reasons.
Each person had a unique journey, entering and leaving care at a different age,
representing the diversity of care over time and place. This diversity impacted
on the types, form and extent of care records available from their respective
childhoods, reflecting changes in recordkeeping practices over the 80-year
period (Hoyle et al., 2019). The rich data from the 21 care experienced
testimonies, although not generalizable, represent a significant and detailed
exploration of the issues they wished to raise. Sixteen care-leaver
contributors had accessed their care records; four had made a conscious
decision not to; and one was in the process of doing so.PublicationsHoyle,
V., Shepherd, E., Flinn, A. and Lomas, E (2019) "Child Social-Care
Recording and the Information Rights of Care-Experienced People: A
Recordkeeping Perspective" in The British Journal of Social Work https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy115 (Open Access - Free to All)Shepherd,
E., Hoyle, V., Lomas, E., Flinn, A., Sexton, A. (2020). Towards a
Human-Centred Participatory Approach to Child Social Care Recordkeeping.
Archival Science. 20(4), 307-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09338-9 Gold Open Access.Hoyle
V, Shepherd E, Lomas E, Flinn A (2020). Recordkeeping and the life-long
memory and identity needs of care-experienced children and young
people. Child and Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12778 Gold Open Access.PodcastMiriam
Antcliffe, Research in Practice Research and Development Officer,
speaks to John-george and Darren who share their personal stories of
accessing their care files as adults:https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/reflections-on-accessing-care-records-and-supporting-good-recording/Project LeafletsMIRRA Research Leaflet: Description and Actions https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mirra/files/2019/07/MIRRAUpdatedLeafletWebVersion.pdfMIRRA Poster: Findingshttps://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mirra/files/2019/07/MIRRA-poster-A1_v03-003.pdfCase Study reportsCare Leavers Experienceshttps://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mirra/files/2019/07/Care-Leavers-Experiences.pdfPractitioner Perspectiveshttps://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/mirra/files/2019/07/Practitioner-Perspectives.pdf

总计，自2018年3月至2019年6月期间，超过80位个人为该项目提供了数据。其中，包含21位成年孤儿。由于项目聚焦于个人经历的定性叙述，因此并未从贡献者那里正式收集人口统计学信息。然而，从他们的证词中可以提炼出详细的个人生平信息。这些孤儿在18至85岁之间，均在1940年代末至2018年间在英国经历过寄养和/或居住照顾。大约三分之一的人在其照顾经历中全部或部分由志愿组织负责，其余则完全由地方当局负责。他们在不同的时间段、国家的不同地区以及不同的原因下接受照顾。每个人的经历都是独特的，他们在不同的年龄进入和离开照顾系统，代表了时间和地点上的照顾多样性。这种多样性影响了他们童年时期可获得的照顾记录的类型、形式和范围，反映了80年间记录保存实践的变迁（Hoyle et al., 2019）。虽然21位照顾经历的证词数据并不具有普遍性，但它们代表了对他们所希望提出的问题的显著且详细的探索。16位孤儿贡献者查阅了他们的照顾记录；4人有意选择不查阅；1人正在此过程中。出版物Hoyle, V., Shepherd, E., Flinn, A.和Lomas, E (2019) "儿童社会照顾记录与照顾经历者的信息权利：记录保存的视角