Administration – DCW Instruction Manual [Department for Community Welfare] appears to be the final draft or master of an instruction manual written in 1972 for Field Officers in the Department for Community Welfare. People who want to know why things happened the way they did might find this file very helpful. While it is written…
Methodist Home for Children: reports and general correspondence (Volume 1 of 2) is an item within the main series of child welfare files for Western Australia. It contains many handwritten and typed Inspector’s Reports on the operation of the Methodist Homes for Children. The reports were written by Inspectors from the State Children Department and,…
This file in the National Archives of Australia contains reports to the Commonwealth Department of Immigration about children who had come as unaccompanied child migrants to Western Australia. Some children are named in the file, and there are general reports on educational and health conditions as well as correspondence about bringing Maltese child migrants to…
The PHIND Personal History Index for former child migrants to Catholic Homes in Australia 1938-1965 is a computerised index detailing the location of records held in Australia. Access Conditions To protect the privacy of individuals named in PHIND, access is restricted. Records PHIND contains personal details of the former child migrants in the Catholic migration…
St John Bosco Boys Town, Glenorchy, Tasmania – Governmental assistance toward costs of building operations for accommodation of British child migrants is an archival item, with contents dating from 1948 to 1953. Access Conditions Open
Clarendon Childrens Home Kingston Tasmania Financial Assistance by C’wealth and Tasmanian Governments: Accommodation for Child and Youth Migrants dates from 1949 to 1953. Access Conditions Open
M135 Hagley Area Farm School contains correspondence between the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department and the School. It includes the names of child migrants. Access Conditions Open Records The correspondence includes: Queries about which boys are still at the School. Individual boys, for instance, about reunification with their parents. Maintenance payments from the Fairbridge…
M82 Mr.J.S. Maslin, Hagley Area School, consists of correspondence between the Principal of Hagley Farm School (JD Maslin) and the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department. It concerns an inquiry that Maslin made about the possibility of bringing child migrants to Tasmania. Access Conditions Open These records have been digitised and are available online
General Correspondence-17-41 was created by the Chief Secretary’s Department. It documents a case of physical abuse at Kennerley Boys’ Home. The relevant correspondence is dated 16 March 1923. Access Conditions Open
History of Lachlan Park Hospital (Now Royal Derwent Hospital). By Dr G.M. Crabbe is a history of Lachlan Park Hospital up to 1950. Access Conditions Open