Posts tagged ‘child migrants’

SA Event: An introduction to the Find & Connect web resource 18 May 2013

Posted on 13 May 2013 by
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Event Date: Saturday 18 May, 10 am – 11.30 am

Karen and Gary George, our SA historians, are presenting a seminar on the Find & Connect web resource as part of About Time, South Australia’s History Festival.

Lotus Place launch new website

Posted on 1 May 2013 by
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Lotus Place, home to the Find & Connect support service in Queensland, have launched a new website.

Inquiry into abuse in Northern Ireland

Posted on 15 February 2013 by
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Another inquiry into historical abuse of children in institutions is now underway, with the panel now appointed for Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (or HIA).

This statutory inquiry will investigate whether there were systemic failings by institutions or the state in their duties towards children in their care during the period 1922 to 1995. (The scope of the …

Tasmania’s Abuse in Care Review Program to close next month

Posted on 24 January 2013 by
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Tasmanian Minister for Children, Michelle O’Byrne, has urged any remaining individuals who suffered abuse while in state care to come forward before the successful redress scheme closes to new applicants next month.

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Posted on 15 January 2013 by
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The Governor-General has appointed a six member Royal Commission and announced the Terms of Reference for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.