The State Children’s Council Annual reports file was used to collate information for use in the Council’s yearly report. It includes various drafts of the reports and correspondence related to the development of the report. These files often contain more or different information about Homes and about welfare policies than the published version of the…
‘F.R. Martin -v- Calvary Welfare Services Inc. Mandurah Management Committee. Order pursuant to s.29. Dismissed for want of prosecution 16/6/89’ is a file held by the State Records Office in Western Australia. Access Conditions Open
‘Moss John – visiting Child Welfare Expert’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It documents the arrangements for a 1951-1952 visit to Children’s Homes and State child welfare authorities by John Moss CBE, a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in Britain, to assess the conditions in institutions…
Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care is a government file relating to the work of the Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care. The Inquiry was held between April and September 1976. The file is held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. Access Conditions Access to these records is open. Please contact…
‘War Cry’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia’s Perth office. The file was created by the Postmaster-General’s Department. In the file are three issues of the Salvation Army’s War Cry magazine, dated 30 May, 6 June and 13 June 1942. These are samples of the magazine, submitted so that they could…
‘John Moss C.B.E. U.K. Child Welfare Expert. Visit to Australia. Part II’ is a file held online by the National Archives of Australia. The file has drafts of reports made by Mr John Moss CBE a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in Britain. Moss visited Australia and New Zealand and examined…
‘UK fact finding mission 1956 part 2’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It contains correspondence and reports about the Ross Fact-Finding Mission, a British Home Office inspection of institutions in Western Australia where child migrants lived. Access Conditions Open. Records ‘UK fact finding mission 1956 part 2’ also holds correspondence…
‘Child Migration – visit by U.K. fact finding mission 1956’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The travel itinerary of the Committee (pages 37-38) shows that they arrived in Canberra on 9 February 1956, visited New South Wales, then Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. They departed for the…
‘Child Migration – General UK fact finding Delegation to visit Australia from 8/2/1956’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It includes the Ross Report, which was the report of the British delegation to their government. The Ross Report can be found at pages 25 to 32 of the file, which is…
‘John Moss, CBE – U.K. Child Expert. Visit to Australia. Part I’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It documents the arrangements for a visit to Children’s Homes and State child welfare authorities by John Moss CBE, a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in Britain. The file…
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