Mardon Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Mardon Receiving Home in about 1981. It was in Devonport. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Mardon closed in about 2000.
A married woman managed Mardon with the assistance of her husband, who was in paid employment outside the Home. In return, they did not pay rent.
The Home provided accommodation for new wards of the state or children on remand from the courts until the Department found a more permanent placement for them. It also took in children requiring temporary accommodation under the Domestic Service Assistance Act and in transit between homes. Some children stayed in the home longer if they got on well with the Family Group Home Carer.
From
c. 1981
To
2000?
c. 1981 - 2000?
Mardon Family Group Home was in Tasman Street, Devonport, Tasmania (Building State unknown)
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