In 1995 the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS) became responsible for dealing with children placed in the care of the state. This child welfare ‘function’ has been the responsibility of many different government agencies in Victoria since 1864. Most records of the predecessor agencies of DHS remained in the custody of DHS. Other records…
The Department of Industrial and Reformatory Schools came into being with the passage of the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act 1864. Children who were deemed to be ‘neglected’ were to be sent to industrial schools. Children convicted of any offence could be sent to a reformatory school but justices had the authority to take their…
Tally Ho Youth Services, run by Wesley Central Mission, was situated in Glen Waverley. It came into being when the Tally Ho Farm was closed in 1986. Tally Ho Youth Services administered five family group homes. Tally Ho Youth Services, Glen Waverley, presented a submission to the Inquiry into Children in Institutional and Other Forms…
St John’s Home for Boys was established in Canterbury in the mansion known as ‘Shrublands’. It formally opened in November 1924. In 1926, boys from the former St Martin’s Home in Auburn, together with its timber building, relocated to St John’s in Canterbury. St John’s Home accommodated boys aged between 5 and 14. By 1958,…
Southbridge Adolescent Services was run by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes.
During the 1990s, the Mission to the Streets and Lanes operated from Napier Street, Fitzroy. Services provided included family counselling and support, foster care and accommodation for young women.
The Moira Private Hospital in Sandringham was run by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes. It provided care to infants and children with developmental disabilities.
The Homes for Children and Family Counselling Service (also known as the Brighton Family Centre) was the new name given in 1968 to the Mission to the Streets and Lanes’ children’s homes in Wilson Street, Brighton. It accommodated children and young people in ‘family group home’ units, and delivered preventive services including family counselling. In…
The Mission to the Streets and Lanes commenced in 1886 providing food, shelter and pastoral care to women and children in inner-city Melbourne. Its deaconesses were to ‘visit in the lanes and courts and bring the message of the Gospel to the poor and fallen and by the force of their sisterly sympathy, compel the…
St Gabriel’s Babies’ Home, Balwyn, was established by the Mission of St James and St John in 1935. St Gabriel’s took over from the Mission’s first babies’ home, Arms of Jesus in East Melbourne, which closed in 1935. It accommodated babies up to the age of 18 months, many of which were adopted out. St…
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