The Family Services Department was created from the former Family and Youth Services Department on 14 December 1987. The new department gained responsility for Intellectual Handicap Services. The department was responsible for juvenile justice facilities. It was amalgamated with the departments of Community Services and the Office of Ethnic Affairs to form the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs on 7 December 1989.
The Family Services Department was created from the former Family and Youth Services Department on 14 December 1987 when a significant re-organisation of ministerial portfolios occurred. As a part of this, the new department gained responsility for Intellectual Handicap Services, formerly a part of the Health Department, and lost ethnic affairs, youth services and the Queensland Recreation Council.
From
14 December 1987
To
7 December 1989
Alternative Names
Family Services Department II