Eastville Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Eastville Receiving Home in 1981. It was in Rokeby. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Eastville closed around 1987.
A married woman managed Eastville Family Group Home with the assistance of her husband, who was in paid employment outside the Home. In return, they did not pay rent.
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. It also took in children requiring temporary accommodation or in transit between homes. Some children stayed in the home longer if they got on well with the foster parent.
From
1981
To
c. 1987
1981 - c. 1987
Eastville Family Group Home was in Morrisby Street, Rokeby, Tasmania (Building State unknown)
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