State of Tasmania
The Department of Community and Health Services replaced the Department of Community Services in 1993. It provided health care, including mental health, financial and other assistance to people with inadequate incomes, and managed family and children's services, including the supervision of state wards. In 1998, its name changed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Ray Groom minority government, elected in 1992, supported by the newly formed Tasmanian Greens, amalgamated the Department of Community Services with the Department of Health Services to create the new Department of Community and Health Services. The government returned Corrective Services to the Department of Justice.
1873 - 1901 Charitable Grants Department
1896 - 1901 Neglected Children's Department
1873 - 1901 Charitable Grants Department
1901 - 1918 Neglected Children's Department
1901 - 1934 Charitable Grants Department
1918 - 1935 Children of the State Department
1885 - 1903 Central Board of Health
1934 - 1961 Social Services Department
1904 - 1956 Public Health Department
1961 - 1983 Social Welfare Department
1956 - 1989 Department of Health Services
1983 - 1989 Department for Community Welfare
1989 - 1993 Department of Health
1989 - 1993 Department of Community Services
1993 - 1998 Department of Community and Health Services
1998 - Department of Health and Human Services
2018 - 2022 Department of Communities Tasmania
2022 - Department for Education, Children and Young People, Tasmanian Government
Sources used to compile this entry: Evans, Caroline, A 'Pink Palace'? Risdon Prison, 1960-2004, Department of Justice, Hobart, 2004, 128 pp.
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 12 January 2011, Last modified: 7 March 2014
Last updated: 4 August 2023
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