The Convict Department was established in 1818. It managed Tasmania’s convict system, and after transportation ceased in 1853, people who had been in the system. The Department closed in 1877. After Tasmania became self-governing in 1856, the Convict Department was part of the Imperial, as distinct from Colonial, establishment and was directly responsible to the…
The Board of Guardians Queens Asylum was established in 1862. It had the guardianship and legal control of the children placed in the Queen’s Orphan Asylum. The Board was abolished in 1879, when the Asylum closed. The Queen’s Asylum Act of 1861 established the Board of Guardians. This coincided with the transfer of administration of…
Miroma Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Sandy Bay in the late 1960s. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. The Home closed in 1979. The Home provided accommodation for new wards of the state or children on remand…
Mardon Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Devonport in the late 1960s. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In the early 1980s, it became Mardon Family Group Home. The Home provided accommodation for new wards of the state…
Launceston Girls’ Home replaced the Launceston Girls’ Industrial School in 1921. It was run by a volunteer ladies’ committee and an advisory council of five men. The Home accommodated girls between the ages of two and 16. It closed in 1989. Launceston Girls’ Home was a non-denominational Protestant home. Its new name was an attempt…
Kanangra Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Mount Stuart in 1958. It replaced the Hobart Receiving Home. The Home provided temporary accommodation for up to eight children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Services Department and its successor, the Social Welfare Department. Kanangra closed in 1975….
Binnowee Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Launceston in 1973. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In the early 1980s, the Home became Binnowee Family Group Home. Binnowee Receiving Home opened in May 1973. A married woman managed…
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Child Care Association was established in 1983 in Launceston. In 2014, it provides long term day child care, an Aboriginal parenting support service, and manages the funds for other projects that support learning for young Aboriginal people. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Child Care Association was established by Molly Mallett who was born on…
The Launceston Girls’ Industrial School, which was managed by a Board of Governors and Ladies Committee, opened in 1877. It trained girls up to the age of 16 in domestic and laundry work. In 1921, it became the Launceston Girls’ Home. The Launceston Girls’ Industrial School was established under the auspices of the 1867 Industrial…
The Hobart Girls Industrial School opened as the Hobart Town Female Refuge in 1862. It was for girls considered to be neglected. In 1945, the Salvation Army took the School over and renamed it the Maylands Salvation Army Home for Girls. Hobart Girls’ Industrial School had eight different locations between 1862 and 1945. The first…
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