M903 [2] Big Brother Movement of Tasmania contains correspondence between the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department and the Big Brother Movement. It names some of the boys who emigrated to Tasmania under the auspices of the Movement. There are a few letters from boys and their parents. The file also contains newspaper cuttings with…
The Select Committee on Child Protection was set up in October 2010 and reported in 2011. It found that the child protection system was under ‘serious stress’ and that as a result, children were not receiving the care and protection that they needed. The situation was not caused by child protection workers, who did a…
The Training Schools Act 1867 also known by its full title “An Act to encourage the Establishment of Training Schools” (Act no. 31 Vict.No.36) established the Training School system in Tasmania. This legislation was repealed in 1896 by the Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children Act 1896 (Act no. 60 Vict No.24) and underwent two…
Mosley Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Mosley Receiving Home in about 1981. It was in New Town. 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. Mosley closed in 1991. A married woman managed Mosley Family…
The Police Prisons Act 1905 (Act No.884/1905) was passed on 9 December 1905. Its full title was: An Act to provide for the establishment of Police Prisons. The Act was repealed by the Prisons Act 1936 on 1 June 1937.
The Kalyra Sanatorium opened in Gloucester Avenue, Belair, in 1894 as a Home for people suffering from tuberculosis. It was run by the James Brown Memorial Trust which opened Estcourt House in the same year. The first patients were admitted to the sanatorium in 1895. A new wing with 12 private rooms was added in…
Families SA was transferred from the former Department for Families and Communities to the new Department for Education and Child Development in 2011. Families SA continues to provide child protection and family support services. The Youth Justice function of Families SA is now part of the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion. In 2016, Families…
The collection Records of the South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre contains logs, admission/ intake cards and property disposition forms related to the South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, Vaughan House and a number of other Government-run institutions for children operating between 1961 and 1999. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable…
The Adoption of Children Act 1925 (Act No. 1692/1925) commenced on 17 December 1925. Its long title was ‘An Act relating to the Adoption of Children’. It introduced a system of legal adoption of children in South Australia for children under the age of 15 years. It was repealed by the Adoption of Children Act…
The Aborigines Act 1934 (Act No. 2154/1934) combined the provisions of the previous 1911 and 1923 Aborigines Acts. Its full title was ‘An Act to consolidate certain Acts relating to the protection and control of the aboriginal and half-caste inhabitants of South Australia.’ The Act was passed on 18 October 1934 and commenced on 1…
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