The Child Protection Board succeeded the Child Protection Assessment Board in 1991. It was more concerned with policy, community and professional education than the old Board had been. Following the Children, Young Persons and their Families Act (1997) the government abolished the Child Protection Board in 1998. The new name reflected the changed role for…
The Child Protection Assessment Board was established by the Child Protection Act of 1974. It was a statutory body which had responsibility for protecting children who were treated cruelly or at risk of it. The Board was a multi-disciplinary team made up of five members including a legal practitioner who was in the chair, a…
The Lucinda Resource Centre, opened in 1980 on the site of the former Weeroona Girls’ Training Centre in Latrobe. It provided services and activities to ‘high need’ children and families to prevent the children from becoming state wards. In 1986, the Centre became the North-West Regional Resource Unit. The establishment of the Lucinda Resource Centre…
The Northern Regional Resource Centre, opened in 1983 and based in Launceston, replaced the Omaru Youth Centre. It provided school holiday programs and after school activities, including swimming, judo and gymnastics, for state wards and other children for whom the Department was concerned. The Centre also ran an Independent Living Unit that taught wards of…
Lismore Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Lindisfarne in 1973. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. Lismore closed in 1979. Lismore Receiving Home opened in May 1973. It was in Lindisfarne, a suburb of Hobart. The Home was…
Woodbridge-Westwinds Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in 1963. It was in Woodbridge. The Home provided accommodation for wards of state. It closed in 1967. The Social Welfare Department intended Woodbridge-Westwinds Receiving Home to be temporary. The Department had bought the property of 44 acres with a timber house at Woodbridge where they planned…
The Sunshine Association formed in 1937 to raise funds to provide holidays for children from poor or isolated homes. In 1951, the Association opened the Sunshine Home which closed in 1980. In 2012, the Association provides funds for holiday camps and sports activities as well as educational and medical expenses for children in poverty or…
The Sunshine Home, run by the Sunshine Association, opened in Howrah in 1951. It provided holidays of up to three weeks to children from poor or isolated homes. The Home closed in 1980. The Sunshine Home opened in Howrah, a suburb of Hobart, on 11 August 1951. The Home was the idea of Margaret Reid,…
Rochebank Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Rochebank Hostel in about 1981. It was in the Glebe. Rochebank provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Rochebank closed in 2009. A married woman managed Rochebank Family Group Home…
The Women’s Health Association formed out of the Women’s Sanitary Association in 1901. They visited working-class women to teach them about sanitation and campaigned for better conditions for factory workers, better housing for the poor, and the health of children. After 1901, the influence of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on child welfare policy seems…
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