This file contains detailed correspondence and reports relating to the management and eventual closure of St Francis House. It includes some copies of Minutes of the St Francis House Committee of Management. Some of these mention the names and circumstances of boys in the Home. Access Conditions Open Under the Archives Act 1983, most Commonwealth…
This file contains correspondence relating to the development of the Church of England Hostel for Inland Children and it successor St Francis House. Original title: Australian Board of Missions – Technical training of half-castes (boys) at St Francis House, Semaphore, South Australia. Access Conditions Open. Under the Archives Act 1983, most Commonwealth records in the…
The Church of England Hostel for Inland Children was opened by Father Percy Smith in a private house at Kensington Park in 1945. Operated by the Church of England as a training home for Aboriginal boys, it initially accommodated six boys from Alice Springs aged between 9 and 12 years. They attended the Marryatville Primary…
The Professional Standards Office Records Service of the Catholic Church holds a number of folders containing information relating to individual former residents of a number of Homes run by the Catholic Church. The contents of these folders vary. Some contain little or no information but others may contain items such as admission forms, maintenance and…
The Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled was opened by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 1976. It replaced the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Ashford House School. Children suffering from disabilities were accommodated in decentralised wards. The Centre was staffed by therapists and teachers from the State’s Education Department. In the…
Novita Children’s Services was the new name adopted by the former Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 2004. In 2019 Spastic Centres of South Australia (SCOSA) merged with Novita Children’s Services, and continued to provide disability services under the Novita name.
The Somerton Crippled Children’s Home was established by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia at Somerton in 1939. It initially operated as a home for the after-care of children suffering from polio. From 1951 the Home began to care for children with other disabilities including neuromuscular diseases like multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. In…
The SA Committee for Crippled Children was formed in 1932 to raise funds for the assistance of families with children affected by ‘infantile paralysis’ or poliomyelitis (polio). After receiving part of a the 50,000 pound national ‘gift’ to crippled children from Lord Nuffield in 1935, several sub-committees were formed. These included the Preventative, Curative, Vocational,…
The Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia, formerly the Crippled Children’s Committee, was incorporated in 1939. It ran the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Regency Park Centre. In 2004 the Association voted unanimously to change its name to Novita Children’s Services.
The Visitors’ Book – Boys’ Reformatory, Magill, is a single leather bound volume with the title embossed on the front cover. It was used by the Magill Boys Reformatory to record visits from 1933 to 1968 by government committees, members of the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Board, community leaders, and local, interstate and overseas…
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