Cornwell Group Home was a family group home at Blacktown established around the 1980s. It was run by Church of England Homes as a temporary family group home for children. It closed in the late 1990s. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of its group homes: Cornwall [Cornwell],…
Cootamundra Training Home was established in a disused hospital building by the Aborigines Protection Board in 1911. It housed only Aboriginal girls, and was designed to train girls for domestic service. In 1940 its management passed to the Aborigines Protection Board. It continued as a girls’ home for Aboriginal girls until it was closed in…
Industrial Schools were institutions where children could receive industrial training. It was a model borrowed from England. The central idea was that neglected children with living parents needed to be taught to be industrious and be able to support themselves in the future. Notions about poverty in the nineteenth century saw poor people as lazy…
The Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme was established by the South Australian government in 2015. The Scheme was for South Australian members of the Stolen Generations who were forcibly removed from their families and culture. Under the criteria of the Scheme, people who were Aboriginal and removed from their families in South Australia before 31 December…
The Gables Residential Unit 101, in Kew, opened in 1985. It operated on the same site as the former children’s Home, The Gables (1962-1985). The Gables Residential Unit was run by the Victorian government. It was a facility for teenagers. It closed in around 1992.
Coventry Home Records is a collection of records related to Coventry Home between 1952 and 1981 held by the Anglican Diocese of Armidale. There are three groups of relevant records: Register of Admissions and Discharges 1952-1981 Particulars of Illness of Children 1953-1977 Personnel files for various children. Access Conditions Records can be accessed by contacting…
Gribble, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer) 1868-1957, Collected Papers, 1892-1970 is a manuscript collection held by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (manuscript number MS 1515). Ernest Gribble co-founded the Yarrabah Mission alongside his father, J.B. Gribble, which they ran until 1910. Ernest Gribble then held a number of religious roles at…
In December 2018, the UK government announced they were establishing a payment scheme for former British Child Migrants. The scheme was for people who had been separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK government’s participation in child migration programs. The payment scheme was established in response to the Interim Report…
The National Redress Scheme was established by the Commonwealth government in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. The NRS was established in 2018 and was announced that it would run for 10 years. The National Redress…
The Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme was announced in 2021. The Scheme “seeks to recognise the harm and trauma experienced by Stolen Generations survivors”. The Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were children when removed from their families and communities, in: Northern Territory before 1 July 1978…
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