This photograph was taken by former Kamballa resident Sandie Jessamine in 2015, showing the gates naming Kamballa and Taldree.
This is a photograph of Waverley House, which housed the Roman Catholic Orphan School from 1837-1844, and then the Church of England Orphanage during the 1890s and 1900s, before it was demolished in 1904. The photograph shows the front a two-storey mansion facing the road, with a front path leading through hedges up to the…
This is an image showing several girls standing next to their beds in the verandah-dormitory of Shuna Junior Red Cross Home. It was originally published in the March-April 1947 issue of the Australian Red Cross Junior Magazine.
This is an image of Kippilaw Junior Red Cross Home, showing the garden and front of the house. A small group of children can be seen sitting on the ground at the end of the path, at the feet of three adults (presumably staff members). The image was originally published in the March-April 1947 issue…
Annexe is a term used to describe a smaller residential facility that is part of a larger institution. For example, the Victoria Park (Riverbank) Annexe was part of the youth detention facility, Riverbank, even though it was located many miles distant. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Custodial Care describes a model that was historically used on many people with intellectual disabilities or mental illness. In a custodial care model, a person was not given any treatment to help them improve from their condition at admission. Many children with intellectual disabilities in psychiatric hospitals up to the 1960s suffered as a result…
Receiving Agency was the name given to the organisation named as the custodian of children who were sent to Australia as migrants from the United Kingdom or Malta. The term is used mostly for post-World War Two migration, but includes some organisations that were responsible for children who came earlier in the century. Click here…
The Farm School was a model of residential ‘care’ for children, based in a rural area, which trained children (typically boys) in agricultural duties. A Western Australian newspaper article from 1935 described the purpose of farm schools: The policy has been to remove unemployed youth from the scrap heap of idleness, train them, and place…
A borstal (or borstall) was a reformatory for young offenders aged about 16 to 21. The term was used between about 1920 and 1970. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Emergency care, being short term, immediate care for children in need, was provided in different ways. Government and non-government Homes provided emergency care. Emergency foster care was also sometimes available. A state’s main children’s ‘depot’ or receiving Home was sometimes used for emergency care. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
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