Records

A record list is available at  https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/sa/SE00120#tab3 There are no client records in the archive as past practices had them destroyed rather than retained.

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Apology

Apology regarding past forced Adoptions – Uniting Church and UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide November 2011 The Synod of the Uniting Church in South Australia and UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide have issued an unreserved apology to mothers who may have been forced to give up their children for adoption and to children who…

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History

Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home was the new name given to the Methodist Home for Babies and Unmarried Mothers at Brighton in 1954. Run by the Methodist Church, it accommodated single girls who were pregnant or had given birth to their first child. It also took in other children in…

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