The Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare is one of the names given to the child welfare department in the 1970s.
The Department of Youth and Community Services is one of the names the Department of Community Services has been known by. The Department of Youth and Community Services replaced the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare in 1973. It was replaced by the Department of Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs in 1975.
The Aborigines Protection Board was established to manage reserves and the welfare of the estimated 9000 Aboriginal people living in New South Wales in the 1880s. It was part of the Department of Police and was chaired by the Commissioner of Police. It met weekly in Phillip Street in Sydney. Board members, including George Edward…
The Aborigines Welfare Board was created in 1940, under the Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940. It replaced the Aborigines Protection Board and was supposed to modernise Aboriginal welfare but it continued many of the Protection Board’s policies towards children. It was abolished in 1969 and replaced by the Aborigines Welfare Directorate. Responsibility for Aboriginal children…
The Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) was formed in New South Wales in 1924, under the leadership of C.F. (Fred) Maynard. Mrs Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton, a non-Aboriginal woman, was secretary. The group demanded children no longer be separated from their families or indentured as domestics and menial labourers, and should have access to public schools….
The Aborigines Welfare Directorate replaced the Aborigines Welfare Board in 1969. It later became known as the Aborigines Services Branch, Youth and Community Services.
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) was created in 2007 (formerly, it was known as the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs). FaHCSIA was the government department responsible for the Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants in November 2009. It also administered the Find and Connect…
The Department of Social Services (DSS) came into being in September 2013. Previously, it was called the Department for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (or FaHCSIA). Within DSS’s programs and services are the Find and Connect services for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual…
The Salvation Army Australia came into being in 2018 – the Australia Territory Board of Governance held its first meeting in September 2018. Previously, the Salvation Army structure had comprised the Southern and Eastern Territories. In 2022, the Salvation Army (also known as The Salvos) continues to provide a range of community services in Australia,…
The Anglican Diocese of Armidale was established in 1914. Previously, it was known as the Diocese of Armidale and Grafton. The Diocese had two children’s Homes, run by a committee of management – Ohio Boys’ Home and Coventry Home. In a statement to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2016,…
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