Mahalo ko ho lekooti´ kuo:
‘Okapau ‘oku ‘ikai ke lava ‘e ha kautaha ‘o ma’u atu ho lekooti´, ‘oku fiema’u ke nau tala atu. Fakatatau ki he lao malu’i ‘o e fakamatala fakafo’ituitui (Privacy Act) ‘oku ‘iai ho’o totonu ke ke ‘ilo ko e hā ‘a e me’a ‘oku hoko´.
Feinga’i ke ke ‘ilo ki he ngaahi ‘uhinga ‘oku ‘e hoko ai ha si’isi’i ‘a e fakamatala ‘oku ke ma’u´ mei he me’a na’ake ‘amanaki kiai´.
‘Okapau ‘e ’ikai lava ‘e he kautaha´ ‘o tukuange mai ha ngaahi lekooti kau kia koe, mahalo ‘e tokoni ange ke fai ha sio ki ha fakamatala fakahisitolia fekau’aki mo e feitu’u na’ake ‘i ai ‘i he malu’i ‘a e pule’anga´ pē tauhi mo tokanga’i ‘e he kakai kehe.
‘E ngali fakakau heni ‘a e ngaahi tohi he nusipepa ´, ngaahi la’i tā, ‘ū´ tohi laukonga mo e hisitōlia kau kiai ha fakamatala he ngaahi nusipepa´, ‘ū´ tohi la’i tā´, tohi laukonga pea mo ha hisitōlia ‘oku hiki tepi.
Hange koeni´, te ke fakasio he uepisaiti ‘a e Lekooti ‘a Nu’usilani´ (Archives New Zealand)open_in_new pē koe uepisaiti ‘a e Laipeli fakafonua´ (National Library)open_in_new.
‘Oku totonu pē ke ke kole ho’o lekooti mei he ngaahi kautaha kehekehe koeni´.
Fakatātā‘aki eni, ‘okapau koe kautaha ko e´ na’a nau faitu’utu’uni kihe feitu’u te ke nofo ai mo hai teke nofo moia´, ‘oku ‘ikai ke toe ma’u ia, ‘e malava pē ko ho lekooti ‘e ma’u ia mei he feitu’u kehe.
Pē, na’e lahi ange he kautaha ‘e taha na’a nau fakahoko e ngaahi tu’utu’uni fekau’aki mo koe´, koe’uhi ke lava ‘o ma’u hao ngaahi lekooti mei he ‘ū´ kautaha lahi.
‘Oku lava ‘o ma’u atu ha ngaahi tokoni ki hono fakakaukau’i pē koe hā e ngaahi kautaha ‘oku nau kei tauhi ho lekooti´. ‘Oku ‘iai pē ‘emau fale’i kihe feitu’u teke ma’u ai e ngaahi tokoni koeni.
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This Easy Read is about why you did not get any records you asked for from the time you were in the care or guardianship of others.
Here records means the information an organisation has kept / made about a person.
Here in care means when an organisation is put in charge of a person and decides things like:
A guardian is an adult put in charge of the care of a person.
A guardian should:
When you ask for your records you may be told that there are no records to send to you.
This may be because the records were:
Here destroyed means:
Redact means hiding / taking out some information in a document.
This could be because there is information about other people in your records.
This is often done with a thick black line.
Click here to learn more about redactions
You should be given the records you asked for unless there is a good reason not to.
If an organisation cannot give you a copy of your records they need to tell you why.
There are some reasons an organisation may not give you information you have asked for.
These reasons are set out in the Privacy Act.
The Privacy Act tells organisations how information must be:
Click here for more reasons why an organisation may not give you the information you have asked for
If you are finding it hard to find your records you could try looking in some other places.
You can find the information you want in old records from the place you were in the:
or
You may be able to find the information you want in things like old:
This information may be on the Archives New Zealand website at:
www.natlib.govt.nz
Archives New Zealand takes care of government information about things like:
This website is not in Easy Read.
It can be hard to find out which organisation has your records.
An organisation that made decisions about your care may have shut down.
This may mean your records were given to another organisation.
1 or more organisations may have made decisions about you your care.
You can ask each organisation about records they may have about you.
Click here to find the organisation that has your records
The organisations may also give you a summary of redacted information.
Here a summary tells you the main ideas about the redacted information.
You can make a complaint to an organisation if you are unhappy about how some information was redacted.
You can contact the Privacy Commissioner if you are unhappy with what an organisation has said about your records.
There are some reasons an organisation may not be able to give you the information asked for.
Click here to learn more about making a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner
Trying to get your records about when you were in care can make you feel lots of things.
It can be good to have someone to talk to about it.
You can talk to your:
Click here for more information on where to get support you if you want to talk about how it feels to get your records
This webpage is not in Easy Read.
Click here to download the information on this webpage as a PDF.
More Easy Read information is available.
Click here to visit our Easy Read library webpage.
Click here to learn about who made this Easy Read.