Absconding is a term used to describe the act of running away or escaping from an institution, foster home or other place of care. The report of the 2004 Senate “Forgotten Australians” inquiry stated that ‘absconding was a widely reported practice’ in children’s institutions around Australia. Various child welfare laws around Australia made absconding or…
The Children’s Court of Western Australia Act 1988 ( 069 of 1988) prescribes how people aged under 18 years will be dealt with in criminal or child protection matters in the State.
The Children’s Court of Western Australia began under the State Children’s Act 1907 and operated within the City of Perth. After amendments, the Court was allowed to sit in the metropolitan area. The Perth Children’s Court became known as the Children’s Court of WA when the Children’s Court of WA Act 1988 was passed. The…
Records of the Department of Child Protection and Family Support, and predecessors is a collection dating back to 1894. It is held by Child Protection and Family Support (CPFS). The collection includes records from the Government Receiving Depot, the State Children’s Department, the Child Welfare Department and more recent departments which have been known at…
The ‘Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project’ was established in 2009 after the National Apology to people who had been in out of home care as children, including people who lived in foster care as children. It is a collection of audio interviews. The project sought to embrace the complexity of the…
Service children refers to those young people who were under the guardianship of the Western Australians departments responsible for the ‘care’ and protection of children. Service children had been placed in employment with employers who had entered into a service agreement. The service agreement was between the employer and the department or other authorised institution…
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare defines adoption as “The legal process by which a person legally becomes a child of the adoptive parent(s) and legally ceases to be a child of his/her existing parent(s)”. In Australia, each state or territory has its own adoption legislation and its own policies and processes. In the…
The PHIND Personal History Index for former child migrants to Catholic Homes in Australia 1938-1965 is a computerised index detailing the location of records held in Australia. Access Conditions To protect the privacy of individuals named in PHIND, access is restricted. Records PHIND contains personal details of the former child migrants in the Catholic migration…
The Churches of Christ Christian Welfare Centre (CCCWC) was involved in administering Karingal, a Home for high school age girls. The CCWC purchased the Karingal property in April 1966 and sold the building to the Child Welfare Department in 1974.
The Former Child Migrants Referral Index is an Access database index of all children who came to Western Australia as unaccompanied child migrants from the UK and Malta during the years 1913 to 1968 to the following Homes: Bindoon (St Joseph’s Farm and Trade School), Castledare Junior Orphanage (St Vincent’s Boys’ Home), Clontarf (St Joseph’s…
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