Records about health camps might be held by Stand Tū Māia, the Ministry of Education and / or the Ministry of Health.
Oranga Tamariki may also have records if a social worker referred the child to a health camp. Learn how to request records from Oranga Tamariki.
We recommend contacting Stand Tū Māia first if you are unsure.
Requesting your records can bring up a range of emotions. Learn where you can find supportopen_in_new to help you on your journey.
To request a copy of your records from Stand Tū Maia:
It can assist Stand Tū Māia to find your records if you can tell them the name of the health camp and when you were at the camp. Find your health camp.
Stand Tū Māia need to respond to you within 20 working days under the Privacy Act. If it will take them longer, they must tell you why.
If they find records about you, they will ask you for proof of your identity and may make redactions before giving you access to them.
Most health camps had a school attached to them, so that children staying at the camp could continue their education.
Health camp schools were managed by Ministry of Education until 2011. The Ministry of Education will hold most school records from before 2011.
After 2012 Stand Tū Māia started managing the health camp schools and will hold all health camp school records from 2012.
Learn how to request records from the Ministry of Education.
There are some health camp records held at Archives NZ on behalf of the Ministry of Health, who inherited responsibility for these records from the Children’s Health Camp Committees and District Committees.
To request records about you at the health camp, contact Archives NZ.
If the records are restricted (for example, because they contain personal information), contact the Ministry of Healthopen_in_new for permission to access the records.
If Archives NZ finds records about you, they may ask you for proof of your identity and the Ministry of Health may make redactions before giving you access to them.
Learn about redactions.
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This is a long webpage.
It can be hard for some people to read a webpage this long.
Some things you can do to make it easier are:
This Easy Read is about how you can ask for your records from health camps.
Here records means the information an organisation has kept / made about a person.
Here a health camp was a place children were sent to learn about:
Your records might not be in 1 place.
Records about health camps might be held by:
Stand Tū Māia is an organisation that supports:
Stand Tū Māia uses Te Ao Māori / the Māori way of seeing the world to:
Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children may also have
records if a social worker referred / said a child should go
to a health camp.
Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children is a government agency that is supposed to keep:
You can find out how to request records from Oranga Tamariki.
There is information in Easy Read at this webpage.
Request means to ask for.
It is best to contact Stand Tū Māia first if you do not know where your health camp records are.
You can request your records from Stand Tū Māia by email:
secretariat@standtumaia.nz
You can request your records from Stand Tū Māia by phone:
04 472 0101
This number may cost you money to call.
If you find it hard to use the phone the New Zealand Relay service is for people who are:
You can find out more about the New Zealand Relay service at:
www.nzrelay.co.nz
You can request your records from Stand Tū Māia by visiting them at this address:
Studio E
230 Thorndon Quay
Wellington.
You can request your records from Stand Tū Māia by using the Kōnae online records request form.
The online records request form lets you ask for records from more than 1 organisation at a time.
The Kōnae online records request form is at this webpage:
www.konae.org.nz/form
This webpage is not in Easy Read.
It might be easier for Stand Tū Māia to find your records if you can tell them:
You can look for your health camp on a map at this webpage:
www.konae.org.nz/map
Stand Tū Māia must get back to you about your request in 20 working days.
Working days:
If it will take longer they must tell you why.
Stand Tū Māia will ask for proof of your identity if they find records about you.
Proof of your identity means showing someone information that says who you are like your driver licence.
Stand Tū Māia might redact the records before giving them to you.
Redact means to take some information out of a document.
This is sometimes done by drawing black lines through words so you cannot read them.
You can learn more about redactions at this webpage:'
www.konae.org.nz/redactions
There was a school at most health camps.
This meant children staying at the camp could still go to school.
The Ministry of Education:
Stand Tū Māia:
You can find information about how to request records from the Ministry of Education at this webpage:
www.konae.org.nz/moe
Archives New Zealand might have health camp records from the Ministry of Health.
Archives New Zealand is a place where old government documents are:
Archives New Zealand took over looking after the records from:
More information about requesting records from Archives New Zealand can be found at this webpage:
www.konae.org.nz/archives-nz
The records at Archives New Zealand might be restricted.
Here restricted means not everyone can see something.
This might be because it has information about other people in it that is private.
You will need to contact the Ministry of Health to be allowed to see the records if they are restricted.
You can click here to contact the Ministry of Health
This website is not in Easy Read.
Archives New Zealand will ask for proof of your identity if they find records about you.
The Ministry of Health might redact the records before giving them to you.
Asking for your records can make you feel all sorts of things.
It can be good to have someone to talk to about it.
You can talk to your:
Kōnae has information on where to get support you if you want to talk about how it feels to get your records.
Find out what support you can get at this webpage:
www.konae.org.nz/support