This is an excerpt from the digital copy of the John Moss Report on Child Migration – Implementation of Recommendations from the National Archives of Australia website. It is a letter from the Child Welfare Department in Western Australia. The letter gives a brief summary of the types of ‘case history’ information that was sent…
This is a copy of a list of items that were needed for children in the Methodist Homes for Children in Western Australia. There is no date on the item, but it is filed in the Uniting Church Archives with other items from the 1970s. This list may have been sent to people who were…
Admission guidelines for the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home from 1959.
This brochure was created by the South Australian Government to promote the Farm Apprenticeship Scheme 1913-14 to English boys.
This is a digital copy of a record held by the National Archives of Australia.
This is an extract from an Annual Report or similar, from the committee responsible for overseeing the Hostel for Girls, also known as Archibald House. The committee was made up of members of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches.
This is a copy of an article from the Courier Mail.
This newspaper article reports on the decision by the Uniting Church to sell the property formerly known as W. R. Black Home.
This is a copy of a timeline produced in 2013, showing the administrative history of the BoysTown organisation. In 2016, the organisation changed its name to yourtown.
This is a transcript of The General Report on Condition and Progress of the Westbrook Reformatory for Boys, written by Superintendent of Westbrook Walter Richmond in 1910. It provides a brief history of the Reformatory, and descriptions of farming activities undertaken by the boys, the health of the boys, and their education and employment.
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