General Correspondence (4) consists of correspondence of the Education Department between 23 April 1906 and 21 July 1991. It contains several items relating to children’s homes. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible by the public. For access to these records please contact Tasmanian Archives. Records The following items in this series relate to…
The Miss Tasmania Quest was an annual competition designed to raise funds to help children suffering from cerebral palsy. By 1958, it had become so successful that it could provide funding to assist children with other kinds of disabilities. From then on, it shared its work with the Retarded Children’s Welfare Association as well as…
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Assistance Act 1970 provided subsidies for the training and accommodation of people under the age of 21 with disabilities. This provided much needed funds to hostels for children with disabilities.
The Mental Health Association was established in 1945. It may have established Talire School.
The Correspondence Files were generated by the Department of Public Health, the Division of Mental Hygiene, the Division of Mental Health, the Division of Psychiatric Services, and the Mental Health Services Commission. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible by the public. For access to these records please contact Tasmanian Archives. Records Files in…
Talire School opened in 1950. The Retarded Children’s Welfare Association ran it between 1952 and 1954 when the government took it over. It was a non-residential School which provided an education for day students with intellectual disabilities. Talire School closed during the 1980s. Talire School was possibly the first of its kind in Australia. It…
Veranto Lifestyle Assistance replaced Oakdale Services Tasmania in 2011. They run services for people living at home in the Hobart area. They also run Oakdale Lodge, a home for adults with disabilities. In 2015 Veranto Lifestyle Assistance merged with Liviende to become Liviende Verant. In 2016-17 the organisation was rebranded as Li-Ve. In 2023 Li-Ve…
Oakdale Services Tasmania replaced the Retarded Citizens Welfare Association in 1992.
The Retarded Citizens Welfare Association (RCWA) was originally the Retarded Children’s Welfare Association. When the children that the original Association had supported began to grow up, members realised that services would need to be developed for their adulthood. To meet these needs, they modified the objectives of the RCWA and changed its name. In 1992,…
The Retarded Children’s Welfare Association (RCWA) was established in Hobart in 1952 to raise funds for better premises for Talire, a volunteer run school for children with intellectual disabilities. The Association also aimed to set up more schools for children with intellectual disabilities and hostels to enable country children to attend them. The RCWA became…
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