Please contact the National Archives of Australia – Perth Office:
Postal Address: PO Box 239, Northbridge, WA 6865
Phone: (08) 9470 7500
Quote this number to access your records: National Archives of Australia Reference Number, PP9/1, 1951/63/1957
These records are held by National Archives of Australia - Perth Office (1998 - current).
‘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 for British child migrants. The file also holds some information from West Australian institutions, supplied for Moss’ report. It can be read online.
‘Moss John – visiting Child Welfare Expert’ 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. Moss was inspecting institutions which held British child migrants. He was doing this ‘unofficially’ while on holiday leave in Australia and New Zealand. Much of this file contains correspondence about John Moss’ itinerary and travel arrangements for his January 1952 visit to Western Australia.
Notable information in the file includes: