Lahi e kakai ‘oku nau kamata fekumi ki he ‘enau ngaahi lekooti´ mo e ‘amanaki te nau ma‘u ha fakamatala faka‘auliliki mo totonu.
Kae pangō´, ‘oku ‘ikai ke fa‘a hoko ia.
Talamai he kakai e ni‘ihi kuo nau fakatokoanga‘i ‘a e ‘ū me‘a ko ‘eni´ ‘i honau lekooti´:
Kapau ‘oku ‘ikai ke lava ha potungāue pe kautaha ‘o ma‘u atu ha tatau ho lekooti´, kuo pau ke nau fakahā atu. Fakatatau mo e lao ki he fakamatala fakafo‘ituitui´ pe ‘oku ‘iloa ko e Privacy Act, ‘oku ‘i ai ho‘o totonu ke ke ‘ilo hono ‘uhinga´.
Ko e kuohili´, na‘e tokanga pē e ngaahi potungāue´ ia pe kautaha´ ke hiki pē ‘a e me‘a na‘e fiema‘u faka‘aho mo fakatefito ki he taumu‘a fakapisinisi.
Ko e kakai ko ia kuo ma‘u ‘enau lekooti´, kuo nau fakatokanga‘i ‘oku ‘i ai e ngaahi potungāue pe kautaha ‘oku ‘ikai ke nau tokanga kinautolu ke tauhi ha fakamatala ‘oku tonu mo kakato fekau‘aki mo e me‘a na‘e hoko he taimi ko ia na‘e tokanga‘i fakalao pe tokanga‘i ai kinautolu ‘e ha taha kehe.
Fakatatau mo e lao ki he fakamatala fakafo‘ituitui´ pe Privacy Act, ‘oku ‘i ai e ngaahi fakamatala ‘oku fiema‘u ke to‘o mei´ ho lekooti´. Ko hono to‘o mei ho lekooti´ ‘oku ‘uhinga ia ko e ngaahi fakamatala e ni‘ihi kuo ‘uluaki to‘o pe fufū‘i ia kimu‘a pea´ ke toki sio ki ai.
‘Ai ke ke ‘ilo fekau‘aki mo e to‘o pe fufū’i e ngaahi fakamatala´
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This Easy Read is about why information might be missing from records about 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 the care or guardianship of others 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 start looking for your records you think you will get:
This does not always happen.
You may not be sent much information about your time in care.
The reasons you might not get much information can be things like the records:
Here destroyed means:
and
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.
The organisation should give you the records you have asked for.
If an organisation cannot give you the records you have asked for they need to tell you why.
These reasons are set out in the Privacy Act.
The Privacy Act is about what organisations should do when they:
Here past means the time that has already been.
In the past organisations did not always make good records about people in their care.
Some people told us when they got their records there was not much information about their:
The information an organisation might give you is about:
Information may be redacted from your records to protect the privacy of someone else.
Getting 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 to find out what support you can get.
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