‘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…
The Priory was a hostel for students going to high school in Albany. The Priory was purchased by the Education Department of Western Australia in 1955. It was possibly run by the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury on behalf of the Education Department from 1957. From around 1961 to 1988 it was under the control of…
The Sisters of St Elizabeth of Hungary was a British Anglican Order of nuns. They arrived in the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury in 1928 to help British group settlers in that district. Their convent was in Spencer Street. With a donation from a supporter, they built and ran the Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls who…
The Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls who went to Bunbury High School was established by the Sisters of St Elizabeth of Hungary, a group of Anglican nuns, in Bunbury in 1931. The hostel was named after Mary Clementina Benthall, who donated £1500. The hostel closed in 1952.
The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent was an Anglican religious order that arrived in Perth, from England, in 1933 to manage the Parkerville Children’s Home after the Community of the Sisters of the Church left. The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent managed Parkerville Children’s Home until the Community of…
The Sisters of the Church (also known as Kilburn Sisters) were an Anglican religious order of women who arrived in Perth, from England, in 1901. They established Tower House in 1901; Perth College in 1902; the Waifs’ Home, Parkerville in 1903; Girls’ High School, Kalgoorlie in 1903; and the Malcolm Street Receiving Home in 1907….
Safe Ministry Professional Standards, Anglican Diocese of Perth, is a service for people who have suffered abuse in out of home care run by the Anglican church or its agencies.
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