Resource Section

Title

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998

In

Health - Third Report

Editor

House of Commons Health Committee

Imprint

Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998

Url

https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061101.htm

Description

On 11 June 1998, the House of Commons Health Committee's Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants heard evidence from various 'sending agencies'and agencies which held records for people who were sent to Western Australia as child migrants. These included: the Catholic Child Welfare Council, The Children's Society, NCH Action for Children and Fairbridge.

Related Entries

Archival Items

• Overseas Children Scheme - Record of custodians and children (Western Australia) (1940 - 1943)

Events

• Inquiry into child migration (2000 - 2001)
• Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants, House of Commons Health Committee, Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997 - 1998)

Organisations

• Australasian Province of the Christian Brothers (1885 - 1953)
• Bindoon (1936 - 1966)
• Castledare (1934 - 1983)
• Catholic Child Welfare Council, United Kingdom (1929 - 2003)
• CBERSS: Christian Brothers Ex Residents and Students Services (1995 - 2005)
• Clontarf (1901 - 1983)
• Department for Family and Children's Services, State of Western Australia (1995 - 2001)
• Fairbridge (c. 1909 - 2011)
• Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra (1913 - 1981)
• Family Care Society (1989 - )
• Methodist Children's Home (1922 - 1959)
• Nazareth House (1941 - 1979?)
• Sisters of Mercy (1846 - 2011)
• Sisters of Nazareth (1938 - )
• St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage (1901 - 1971)
• St Vincent's Foundling Home (1914 - 1971)

Related Publications

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• Catholic Child Welfare Council, 'CCWC Minutes of Evidence Document 5', in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061108.htm. Details
• The Children's Society, 'Memorandum by The Children's Society', in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061101.htm. Details
• Fairbridge, 'Memorandum by Fairbridge', in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061114.htm. Details
• Family Care Society, 'Memorandum by the Family Care Society', in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061115.htm. Details
• NCH Action for Children, 'Memorandum by NCH Action for Children', in Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061116.htm. Details

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• Health Committee, House of Commons, Health - Third Report, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 23 July 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/75502.htm. Details

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• Gill, Alan, Orphans of the empire : the shocking story of child migration to Australia, Millenium Books, Alexandria, NSW, 1997. Details

Related Photos

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Title

CCWC Minutes of Evidence Document 3

Type

Document

Date

11 June 1998

Source

House of Commons Health Committee, Parliament of the United Kingdom

Details

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