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Peer reviewedGrier, Julie – History of Education, 2002
Focuses on child migration issues and the impact of the British National Children's Home and Barnardo's, voluntary child care societies during 1948-1967. States England dictated child migration policy in Australia. Concludes the child migration study illustrates how the voluntary sector can be exploited by the state to fulfill controversial…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkMusgrove, Nell – History of Education, 2016
A three-year-old boy, born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1892, lived the final months of his life in an abusive foster home. His death barely made a ripple in the press, and the system proved unable or unwilling to deal with much of the most disturbing evidence about the perpetrators of abuse. This article argues that cases like this one are more…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Abuse, Historical Interpretation, Social Justice
