Pyrton was a government-run Home for children diagnosed with profound intellectual disabilities. It opened in 1966 in Eden Hill (Lockridge) with children transferred from Claremont Hospital. Pyrton provided long-term accommodation and short-term respite ‘care’. From 1973, young people could be employed in an onsite Training Centre. No children were admitted to Pyrton after the 1980s….
‘Investigation into the Administration of the Child Welfare Department of Western Australia by RH Hicks’ was a review of child welfare facilities and administrative structures that was commissioned by the Premier of Western Australia in 1953. Subsequently, the Child Welfare Department was restructured, the Seaforth Salvation Army Boys’ Reformatory was closed and a new boys’…
The Children and Young People in Care Advisory Committee was established by the Department for Community Development to provide independent advice to the Director-General on issues relating to children and young people in ‘care’, likely to enter care, and leaving care.
The Care for Children Advisory Committee was established in 1999 to provide advice on matters relating to the out of home ‘care’ sector to the departments responsible for child welfare in Western Australia. The committee ceased operating in February 2002.
The Out of Home Preventative and Alternative Care Planning and Coordination Committee was established by the Western Australian government in September 1994. Its role was to advise the Director-General of the Department responsible for child welfare on how services in the out-of-home ‘care’ sector could be integrated and enhanced.
Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care is a government file relating to the work of the Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care. The Inquiry was held between April and September 1976. The file is held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. Access Conditions Access to these records is open. Please contact…
The Consultative Committee on Residential Child Care (CCRCC) was established by the Premier of Western Australia in 1977 as an Interim committee, as a result of the Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care. The CCRCC had a developmental review and evaluation role over out-of-home ‘care’ practices in WA and reported to the Minister responsible…
A Committee of Inquiry into Residential Child Care was appointed by the Minister for Community Welfare in 1976. The Committee recommended that the government should continue to partner with the voluntary sector in the delivery of out of home ‘care’. The ministerial Consultative Committee on Residential Child Care was established as a result of this…
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs [predecessors], Records is a collection of records relating to Aboriginal family history in Western Australia. The collection includes records held in the State Records Office; copies of the Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell genealogies, photographs, journals and data; copies of the Elkin genealogies for the Kimberley region; and the Jan…
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs (DAA) was formed on 17 May 2013, as a new name for the Department of Indigenous Affairs. The DAA has an information service and other resources for Aboriginal family history in Western Australia. On 30 June 2017, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs’ functions were divided between four government departments, with…
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