The State Library of Western Australia’s JS Battye Library of West Australian History Collection contains records of the Activ Foundation. This collection is identified by the Ephemera number PR1370. The collection mostly contains brochures that describe Activ Foundation services, products and key events. Access Conditions This collection is open and accessible by the public. For…
The Slow Learning Children’s Group (SLCG) began in Perth in 1951. A group of parents whose children had intellectual disabilities created an organisation that resulted in educational and training programs, appropriate residential facilities, meaningful employment and pathways to independence for all Western Australians with intellectual disabilities. In 1989, the SLCG changed its name to Activ…
A Royal Commission to inquire into the administration of Heathcote and other mental health hospitals was held in Western Australia in 1938. The Report of the Royal Commission does not mention children, but it does describe conditions at Heathcote and Claremont during years when children were sent there. Hospitals in the mental health system were…
A Royal Commission to inquire into the custody of people classified as ‘criminally insane’ was held in Western Australia in 1936. The Report of the Royal Commission does not mention children, but it does describe conditions at Claremont during years when children were sent there. Notably, there was no special ward for patients who were…
The Education Act Amendment Act 1952 (030 of 1952 (1 Eliz. II No. 30)) extended the provisions for the commitment of children with a disability to an institution. The Act now applied to children who were ‘blind, deaf, mute, cerebrally palsied or mentally defective.’ Prior to the Education Act Amendment Act 1952, parents whose child…
The Disability Services Commission (DSC) was formed by the ‘Disability Services Act 1993 Western Australia’. The DSC merged and replaced the Authority for the Intellectually Handicapped (AIH, or ‘Irrabeena’) and the Bureau for Disability Services. The Act made the DSC responsible to the Minister for Disability Services, with its key functions being to ‘unify and…
The Disability Services Amendment Act 1999 was passed on 25 November 1999. This Amendmend strengthened the reporting requirements on service providers. The following matters were to be reported to the Ministerial Advisory Council for Disability Services: deaths, ‘significant physical or psychological harm’, including neglect that might cause that harm; and any assault (including sexual assault)….
The Disability Services Act 1993 (Act no. 36 of 1993) was passed on 16 September and commenced on 23 December 1993. Its long title is ‘An Act for the establishment of the Disability Services Commission and the Advisory Council for Disability Services, for the furtherance of principles applicable to people with disabilities, for the funding…
The Disability Services Act 1992 (Act No. 77 of 1992) was passed on 18 December 1992. Its long title was ‘An Act providing for the furtherance of principles applicable to people with disablities, for the funding of services to people with disabilities that further certain objectives, for the resolution of complaints by such people, for…
The Acts Amendment (Authority for Intellectually Handicapped Persons) Act 1985 (069 of 1985) amended the Mental Health Act 1962. The term ‘intellectually defective’ was removed and replaced with ‘intellectually handicapped person’. Other amendments made it clear that an intellectual disability was not a mental illness and removed references to training centres and other facilities for…
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