State Children Relief Act 1881 (1881 - 1901)

From

1881

To

1901

Categories

Principal Act

Alternative Names

• An Act to establish a System of boarding-out Children

Location

New South Wales

The State Children Relief Act of 1881 [24/1881 (44 Vic. No.24)] created the State Children's Relief Board [SCRB], a body of nine members that reported to the Colonial Secretary. Its task was to remove children from state-funded institutions and board them out, or foster them, with working class families. This Act enabled the SCRB to pay fees to foster families, and to supervise foster children, and place them in apprenticeship as it saw fit. Within five years, almost all children who had been in the care of the Benevolent Society and the Roman Catholic and Protestant Orphanages were in the boarding out system. This Act was amended by the State Children Relief (Amendment) Act 1896. It was repealed by the State Children Relief Act 1901.

Timeline

1881 - 1901

State Children Relief Act 1881

1901 - 1923

State Children Relief Act 1901