The State Children Department, a sub-department of the Labour and Industry Department, was created to provide care, management and control of orphaned, neglected, abandoned, delinquent and convicted children and their property. The Department ran Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook, Birralee Children’s Home, Townsville Receiving Depot, Carramar Receiving and Assessment Centre, Warilda Children’s Home and Warilda Infants’ Home. The Children’s Services Department was upgraded to a full Department from 1 August 1966.
The period 1963 – 1966 represented a transition in the management of State children from removal and institutionalisation to a greater concern for state children and other children in terms of welfare and social acceptance through keeping the family together.
From
26 September 1963
To
1 August 1966
Alternative Names
Labour and Industry Department II, State Children Department