The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was established by the Northern Ireland Executive on 19 January 2013. It was created to investigate abuse suffered by children under the age of 18 years in institutions in Northern Ireland. As part of its work, the Inquiry examined the treatment of children in institutions in Northern Ireland who were…
An Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants was undertaken by the Parliament of the United Kingdom’s House of Commons Health Committee in 1997-98. In relation to Australia, the Inquiry was most interested in the fate of children who were sent from Britain in the twentieth century. The inquiry and its report (known…
‘Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project [sound recording]’ is a collection of interviews undertaken by the National Library of Australia. These interviews follow an earlier project that included oral histories from Indigenous people, missionaries, police and administrators who were ‘involved in or affected by’ the removal of Indigenous children from their families….
Open adoption is when an adoption occurs with no secrecy, the child can know who their birth parents are and the birth parents have the right to keep in contact with the child. It can be compared to closed adoption practices of the twentieth century and the effects these had on many people involved in…
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 ‘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…
The Child Migrants Trust (CMT) was established in 1987 by English social worker Margaret Humphreys to address the issues surrounding the deportation of children from Britain, and to offer to former child migrants and their families services including counselling, support for family reunions, and family research. Since 2010, the CMT has administered the UK government-funded…
Frontier Services was formed in 1977 when the Uniting Church was established and the inland missions of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist Churches were combined. Frontier Services was a name historically used by the founder of the AIM, John Flynn, and it was revived as the official name of the freshly constituted body within the…
The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1945 had the full title ‘An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Cape Barren Island Reserve’. It repealed the Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912 and imposed stricter conditions on those living on the Cape Barren Island Reserve. Residents now had to live continuously in…
Records relating to the Sight Saving School (also known as the Bruce Hamilton School) are held by the Tasmanian Archives. The collection includes admission registers, reports on students’ progress and photographs. Records The collection includes the following records: Admission register 1940-1960 Observation book 1940-1954 Photographs 1950-1980 Correspondence received 1956-1976 Journal, including some case histories 1957-1970…
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