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Receiving Home
A receiving home was an institution designed to provide short term ‘care’ for children before they were sent to a longer term placement (typically a foster home). From the 1950s onwards this type of institution was often called a reception centre.
Bradshaw House (1966 - 1976)
Dundas House (1961 - 1979?)
Essington House (1963 - 1974)
Fannie Bay Receiving Home (1956 - 1957)
Palmerston House (1963 - ?)
Receiving Home, Alice Springs (1959 - 1966)
Receiving Home, Darwin (1957 - 1961)
Records Service
A Records Service is an organisation, or part of an organisation, which helps people find and locate records that were contain information about them and their time in ‘care’.
Garden Point Resource Centre
Global Interaction
Lutheran Archives
National Archives of Australia
Northern Territory Archives Service
Repository
A storage facility.
Garden Point Resource Centre
Global Interaction
Lutheran Archives
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
National Archives of Australia
National Library of Australia
Northern Territory Archives Service