A Child Abuse Review Panel was jointly commissioned by the Hon Ministers for Police, Health and Community Services in Western Australia in May 1984. The Panel reported to those Ministers in July 1985. The broad purpose of the Panel was to review systems of child protection in WA, provide specialist advice to child protection workers,…
Bishop Hale’s Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children operated from1871 to 1888 in Perth. In October 1888 this institution closed and the children were sent to be the first residents of the Swan Native and Half-Caste Mission. Bishop Hale was the Anglican Bishop of Perth who, before coming to Perth, had established a ‘Native Institution’…
Perth Protestant Orphanage / Perth Anglican Orphanages is a collection of records held on microfilm in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. There are records for: Bishop Hale’s Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children in Perth; Swan Native and Half Caste Mission, Middle Swan; Redhill Industrial School; Perth…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains records of the Perth Girls’ Orphanage Chapel in Western Australia. The Battye Library has created a finding aid (known as a Manuscript Note or MN) to help people to see what information is held in this collection. Please see MN 614. The Chapel collection contains registers from the…
The Archive of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth holds around 1,000 files relating to Former Child Migrants. The collection includes files created by the Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association and the Catholic Migrant Centre. The files may include information from Malta, from Children’s Homes in Britain and the Catholic Homes to which children were…
Keaney House was established in Alma Road, North Perth by the Society of St Vincent de Paul. It was a hostel for up to nine ‘working youths’, with a focus on aftercare for former child migrants from Christian Brothers institutions, mostly from Clontarf. This function ceased in 1965 and the building was later used as…
The Catholic Migrant Centre was established in 1984 by the Archdiocese of Perth to deliver a range of immigration-related programs from a small office in Victoria Square in Perth. In 1992, Sr Tania de Jong was appointed to help former child migrants access records about their childhood and trace family in Britain and Malta, using…
Form Manual contains samples of forms used by the Child Welfare Department and the Department of Native Welfare. The file is divided into three sections. Section 1 contains Department of Native Welfare forms. Section 2 contains forms from other Western Australian departments, including the Children’s Court. Section 3 contains forms from Commonwealth departments. There is…
‘Wards Resident in Institutions – Vocational Guidance Reports – Policy & General Correspondence’ is a file held by the State Records Office of Western Australia, within the series titled ‘Files – Community Welfare (“A” Series)’. It was created on the 16 March 1950 with a letter from Father Cyril Stinson of the Catholic Episcopal Migration…
Burnbrae (late Byford Presbyterian Children’s Home) – attendance file mostly contains letters to and from the Education Department about the use of the Burnbrae School (also known as Glen Burnbrae School) and headmaster’s quarters. This school was located on the site of the Burnbrae Presbyterian Children’s Home and children from the Home attended the Burnbrae…
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