Cornwall Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in the late 1970s. It was in Launceston. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. Cornwall Receiving Home became Cornwall Family Group Home in 1980.
A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper, managed Cornwall with the assistance of her husband, who was in paid employment outside the Home. In return, they received free accommodation.
The Home provided accommodation for new wards of the state or children on remand from the courts until the Department found a more permanent placement for them. The Home also took in children requiring temporary accommodation under the Domestic Service Assistance Act and in transit between homes.
The Department changed the name in the early 1980s to Cornwall Family Group Home, apparently to emphasise its domestic environment and the fact that some children stayed in the Home longer if they got on well with the Receiving Home Keeper.
From
1978?
To
1980
1978? - 1980?
Cornwall Receiving Home located in Cornwall Crescent, Launceston, Tasmania (Building State unknown)
Subsequent