Care Experienced History Month 2022

The first events of Care Experienced History Month & how to participate

St Joseph's Girls Orphanage Dormitory

Voice and Influence of People With Lived Experience

A new opportunity for people who grew up in orphanages, children’s Homes, missions or foster care to share their experience with the British Journal of Social Work

Bonegilla

We’re expanding our information about children who went from Bonegilla Migrant Camp to the welfare system.

Ashley Our Home

Ashley Boys Home and Updating Find & Connect

The history of child welfare in Australia is missing its most important voices without those who were in care.

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We’re 10 Years Old!

A lot has changed in the decade since we first launched and we’re not slowing down

Therapy session at Kamballa 1975

Then and Now – Children in the Welfare System

Stories from and about people who spent time in care for you to read and watch.

Hospital Creche 1954

Listen: Women Speak about Forced Adoption

Hear from the women who experienced their babies being taken from them to be adopted to married couples

Boys working in the vegetable patch at

See Them Grow

Spring brings warmer weather and more work to do in the garden, as these children tending their vegetable patches knew well.

British Children Evacuate To Australia

Caught on Film

Film taken in children’s homes and institutions provide a skewed view of life in care, but also some insights into life at the time.

Nudgee Orphanage 1928

Finding Family

People who were in care as children were often separated from their siblings & may not have known their parents. It’s possible they may be found.