Submission No 319 to the Senate Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care

Publication Resource Details

Author
Name withheld
Publication Date
17 March 2005
Publisher
Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Commonwealth of Australia
URL
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist

Related Information

Burnbrae Presbyterian Children's Home (1938 - 1956)
Child Welfare Department, State of Western Australia (22 December 1927 - 15 June 1972)
Government Receiving Home (1935 - 1952)
Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care, Parliament of Australia (2003 - 2005)
Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
Swan Boys' Orphanage (1876 - 1942)
WA School for Deaf Children (1896 - 2001) Relevance: In his submission to the Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care, a man who lived at the Burnbrae Presbyterian Children’s Home remembered going for summer holiday camps at the WA School for Deaf Children in the 1940s.

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