The Admission Register for the Industrial School for Girls, Toowoomba, Series ID 6594, contains details about girls admitted to the Industrial School for Girls, Toowoomba. Entries record details of each girl entering the school, including name, admission number, birthplace and immigration information, religion, age, physical description, education or trade, and other remarks. A digitised copy…
A public inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Foster Care in Queensland was conducted by the Crime and Misconduct Commission in 2003. The report from the inquiry, Protecting Children: an inquiry into abuse of children in foster care, was published in January 2004.
The Industrial School for Girls, Toowoomba was the new name given to the Industrial and Reformatory School for Girls, Toowoomba, in around 1890. It was run by the government. The Industrial School for Girls, Toowoomba was discontinued and closed on 14 Oct 1903.
The Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs was formed through the amalgamation of the Department of Community Services and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Family Services on 7 December 1989. A separate division of the Department was created called the Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Department to have a supportive rather than…
The Industrial and Reformatory School for Girls, Toowoomba, run by the government, was established on 1 April 1881. It was previously the Toowoomba jail. The superintendent and matron of the jail were appointed superintendent and matron of the school under the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act of 1865. Under the Act, children under the age…
The Department of Family and Community Services superseded the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. The Department ran the Therapeutic Adolescent Residential Assessment Unit, The Outlook Training and Resource Centre, the John Oxley Youth Detention Centre and the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre It was renamed the Department of Families, Youth and Community…
The Department of Families was created on 17 February 2001. Previously known as the Department of Families, Youth and Community Care, following the State general elections on 17 Feb 2001, the Department’s title was changed to the Department of Families. The Department had responsibility for juvenile justice facilities. On 12 February 2004 the Families Department…
The Department of Families, Youth and Community Care was previously known as the Department of Family and Community Services. The department’s responsibilities included a range of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, neglected or abused children, juveniles in conflict with the law, people with disabilities, older people, the homeless, disadvantaged, and families in…
SOWES229 is a series consisting of records created by the Social Welfare Department of the Anglican Diocese (and its predecessor, the Home Mission Fund). Some of the records in this series relate to the Industrial School for Girls, Clayfield; St Mary’s Home, Toowong; St Mary’s Home, Taringa; Tufnell Home; Enoggera Boys’s Home; Anglican Children’s Home,…
New Farm St Vincent’s, in New Farm was operated by the Sisters of Mercy. It opened in the early 1860s and was originally situated in rented lodgings at Carirncross House and adjacent cottages at New Farm. In 1867 the children were transferred to Queens Road, Nudgee and the name changed to St Vincent’s Orphanage. In…
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