Craig House was run by the Country Women’s Association (CWA) from 1949 as a hostel for boys going to the Bunbury High Schoo. From 1965 it also accommodated female students. Craig House closed in 1969 due to financial issues, however was reopened in 1972 under the management of the Country High School Hostels Authority. Craig…
Broken Rites is an organisation formed in 1992 by victims of church-related sexual abuse. About 90 per cent of the men and women who have contacted Broken Rites Australia have been from a Catholic background. The organisation also supports victims from other denominations including the Anglican Church and the Uniting Church. Broken Rites does not…
The Child Migrant Support Fund was established by the British Government as a result of its Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants. The purpose of the Fund was to help reunite people who had been sent to Australia as child migrants with their family of origin in the UK. The Fund was…
The Child Migrant Friendship Society (CMFS) was established around 1987 by a group of former residents of Catholic institutions, to advocate for people who had been sent as unaccompanied child migrants. Funding for CMFS operational expenses came from the Christian Brothers. CMFS operated in some form to at least 2001. In his submission to the…
‘UK fact finding mission 1956 part 2’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It contains correspondence and reports about the Ross Fact-Finding Mission, a British Home Office inspection of institutions in Western Australia where child migrants lived. Access Conditions Open. Records ‘UK fact finding mission 1956 part 2’ also holds correspondence…
‘Child Migration – visit by U.K. fact finding mission 1956’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The travel itinerary of the Committee (pages 37-38) shows that they arrived in Canberra on 9 February 1956, visited New South Wales, then Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. They departed for the…
‘Child Migration – General UK fact finding Delegation to visit Australia from 8/2/1956’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It includes the Ross Report, which was the report of the British delegation to their government. The Ross Report can be found at pages 25 to 32 of the file, which is…
The Fact-Finding Mission on Child Migration was a 1956 visit by a British team of inspectors to Australian institutions where British child migrants were living. One of its purposes was to decide whether Britain would continue to support migrant children after May 1957, when the British Empire Settlement Act, which provided for their maintenance, ceased…
‘John Moss, CBE – U.K. Child Expert. Visit to Australia. Part I’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It documents the arrangements for a visit to Children’s Homes and State child welfare authorities by John Moss CBE, a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in Britain. The file…
‘John Moss Report on Child Migration – Implementation of Recommendations’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The file documents the responses from Children’s Homes, State child welfare authorities, sending and receiving agencies to recommendations made by Mr John Moss CBE a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in…
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