Book

Author

Jaggs, Donella

Title

Neglected and criminal: foundations of child welfare legislation in Victoria

Imprint

Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1986

Related Entries

Events

• The Gold Rushes in Victoria (1851 - c. 1869)
• Select Committee of Inquiry upon Penal Discipline (1856 - 1857)

Glossary Terms

• Adoption
• Baby Farming (c. 1867 - )

Legislation

• Children's Court Act 1906 (1906 - 1915)
• Children's Maintenance Act 1919 (1919 - 1929)
• Children's Welfare Act 1933 (1933 - 1955)
• Infant Life Protection Act 1890 (1891 - 1915)
• Infant Life Protection Act 1915 (1915 - 1929)
• Maintenance Act 1928 (1929 - 1958)

  see Chapter 8

• The Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864 (1864 - 1888)
• The Neglected Children's Act 1887 (1888 - 1890)
• Public Health Amendment Statute 1883 (1883 - 1890)

Organisations

• Children's Court of Victoria (1906 - )
• The 'Deborah' (1864 - 1873?)
• Department of Industrial and Reformatory Schools (1864 - 1887)
• Immigrants' Aid Society (1853 - c. 1902)
• The 'Nelson' (1868 - 1876)
• The 'Sir Harry Smith' (1865 - 1873)