This UCL Department of Information Studies film introduces the MIRRA project, a partnership with The Care Leavers' Association and a participatory research group of care leavers and care-experienced people. The project brings together records management, information access, governance and lived experience to examine how care records can better support people after care.

Care-experienced contributors describe finding that local authorities held files about their lives, applying for access, facing delays and using records to fill gaps in memory and personal history. They also describe the emotional impact of receiving years of information at once, especially where records relate to trauma, separation or difficult childhood events.

The film emphasises that records are more than administrative or legal documents. They can shape memory, identity and relationships with the past. It asks practitioners and organisations to consider how records are written, preserved, explained and shared, because the person described may read their file one day.