In her 20 years at Ngala, Grant created and continued to streamline the institutions adoption processes. An example of this is told in an annecdote by my mother.

Soon after her admission to Ngala in 1972 (six weeks before my birth) my mother attended a classroom styled setting to complete a suite of adoption related documentation. Grant gave specific and careful instructions to the group of mothers about what to write in each section of each document. For instance, Grant instructed mothers to not detail the father’s name, even in the case where he was known. This also included non-identifying information paperwork and their soon to be born, baby's birth certificate. As in all states of Australia it is a crime to create a fraudulent birth certificate, yet Matron Grant was routinely participating in this illegal activity.

Excluding our fathers details from all documentation was intentional, it meant that authorities did not need to seek his consent for our adoption, thus making the adoption process easier and quicker. 

As a consequence, decades later, thousands of WA adoptees do not have their fathers names on their original birth certificate and there is no easy or fee free means to have his name added. 

This is just one of multiple consequences of Beryl Grants legacy as the 'mother' of closed adoption in Western Australia.