The North-West Regional Resource Unit replaced the Lucinda Resource Centre. The new Unit opened on the same site, the former Weeroona Girls’ Training Centre at Latrobe. In 1988, it moved to new offices in Burnie. The Centre closed during the 1990s. The Unit undertook a range of activities designed to support families so that their…
The Southern Regional Resource Centre opened in January 1985. Unlike the other resource centres, it did not run many activities. Instead, since the southern region already had a wide range of community groups, it linked welfare workers to those. The Centre closed in the 1990s. In 1985, staff at the Centre found camping programs for…
Woodlands Family Group Home, run by the government, opened in about 1985. It was located on Hearps Road, Ulverstone. Woodlands provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Department of Community Welfare and its successors. Woodlands closed around 2000. A married woman managed Woodlands Family Group…
The Glenorchy Infant Orphanage opened in 1898. Originally a Mrs Fagg ran it but in 1902, she handed it over to a Miss Maum. The Orphanage had accommodation for 10 children and appears to have been for a young age range, about 1 to 10 years. It closed in about 1912. The Glenorchy Infant Orphanage…
The Relief Division of the Social Services Department, and the Social Welfare Department that succeeded it, was established in the early 1950s. It provided financial and other assistance to people without enough money to meet everyday expenses. Family welfare work often involved both the Relief and the Child Welfare Divisions. After the early 1980s, the…
The Special and Rare Collections department is part of the University of Tasmania Library. Its collection includes the records of the Industrial School for Girls – Hobart.
The Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages replaced the Registrar-General’s Division in 1989. In 2014, the Registrar maintains registers of births, deaths, marriages, deeds of relationships, and adoptions, changes of name, and changes of sex for people born in Tasmania. It holds church records from 1803 to 1839 and birth, death, and marriage records from…
The Registrar-General’s Division replaced the Registrar-General’s Department when, in 1972, it amalgamated with the Lands Titles Department. In 1983, it merged with the newly created Law Department.
The Registrar-General’s Department replaced the General Registry Department in 1959. It continued to administer the Adoption of Children Act 1920 until 1961 when the Child Welfare Division of the Social Welfare Department took over responsibility for it.
The General Registry Department replaced the Statistical and General Registry Department in 1924, following the Commonwealth government’s takeover of the of the state statistical service. In 1930, the Department temporarily became a branch again because of funding problems. It resumed departmental status in 1934. The Department continued to administer the Adoption of Children Act 1920.
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