The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is a peak body for community service organisations in the child, youth and family services sector of Victoria, established in 2003. The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is located in Melbourne. The organisation began as the Children’s Welfare Association of Victoria, a peak…
The Aborigines Welfare Ordinance 1954 (Act no. 8/1954) was Commonwealth legislation, established to ‘provide for the welfare and control of Aborigines, particularly those at the Wreck Bay reserve’ (Jervis Bay Territory). The 1954 Ordinance followed the lines of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Acts, 1909-1943 and was approved by the Aborigines Welfare Board of…
The Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1941 (Act no. 11/1941) was Commonwealth legislation that allowed for children from the ACT to be placed in NSW institutions. It provided that a court in the ACT may commit a person under the age of eighteen to a NSW institution, in accordance with the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act…
The Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Ordinance 1949 (Act no. 9/1949) was Commonwealth legislation, which amended the definition of ‘neglected child’ in the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 (NSW). It commenced on 29 September 1949 and was repealed by the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957 on 1 March 1958. The NSW child welfare legislation…
The Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938 (Act no. 2/1938) was Commonwealth legislation that regulated adoption of children in the ACT for the first time. This Ordinance was repealed by the Adoption of Children Act 1965, commencing on 18 October 1966. Under the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1938, adoption required the consent of the child’s parent…
This is a photograph of the clock tower at St. Huberts Vineyard, Coldstream, taken around 1950. It shows the clock tower. It had previously been part of the Church of England Boys Society Training Farm at Yering, also known as St. Huberts Training Farm. According to the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum this clock tower was…
This is an image of ‘Ashleigh’, a large house in Widford Street, Glenroy which housed the Salvation Army Glenroy Girls’ Home from 1902 to 1915. The house was later renamed ‘Sunnilands’.
This is an image of the Glenroy Girls’ Home, run by the Salvation Army. This image shows at least 40 girls, all dressed in white pinafores, standing on the upper verandah of the home, which is a very large, ornate, two-storey house. More girls, similarly dressed, sit on the lawn in front of the house,…
This image is an engraving of the Melbourne Protestant Orphan Asylum created by Arthur Willmore in 1862. It shows a large number of children accompanied by several adults sitting and standing in front of a large, ornate, stone building.
This is a digital copy of a photograph of St Vincent de Paul’s Children’s Home. It is published in the book Holding on to hope (2004) with the following caption: ‘The double-story, red brick building, constructed on an elevated site close to the beach in 1938, originally functioned as a convent and holiday home. It…
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