Posts tagged ‘child migrants’
Posted on 13 May 2013 by Sally Orpin
Tags: apology, care leaver, child migrants, CLAN, family history, Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants, history, records, social justice, South Australia
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.
Posted on 1 May 2013 by Sally Orpin
Tags: care leaver, child migrants, Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants, news, queensland, social justice, support service, updates
Lotus Place, home to the Find & Connect support service in Queensland, have launched a new website.
Posted on 15 February 2013 by Cate O'Neill
Tags: abuse, child migrants, Former Child Migrants, inquiry, Northern Ireland
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 …
Posted on 24 January 2013 by Sally Orpin
Tags: care leaver, child migrants, child protection, compensation, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, redress, social justice, Tasmania
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.
Posted on 15 January 2013 by Sally Orpin
Tags: abuse, care leaver, child migrants, child protection, CLAN, FaHCSIA, inquiry, Royal Commission, social justice
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.