The Burwood Children’s Home was established in 1972. Previously known as the Burwood Boys’ Home, it changed its name when it began to accept girls from the early 1970s. The last child left the Home in 1986. It was around this time that the Home became the Child and Family Care Network. The Burwood Children’s…
The Child and Family Care Network came into being around 1986. It was known previously as the Burwood Children’s Home. The Network offered child and family welfare and educational programs. In 1996, it shifted its focus to children’s services and early intervention. In 2006, it changed its name to bestchance Child Family Care. The Child…
bestchance Child Family Care was established in 2006. Previously, it was known as Child and Family Care Network. The organisation dates back to 1895 and the establishment of the Burwood Boys’ Home. In 2006, bestchance opened its Child Care Centre in Glen Waverley which delivers a range of children’s services. Bestchance holds records from its…
Camp Pell was an army camp within Royal Park in the suburb of Parkville which, in 1946 became home for around 3,000 people experiencing the post-war housing shortage in Victoria. Many of these families needed temporary accommodation, having been directly affected by ‘slum reclamation’ policies. Other emergency camps were established at Fawkner Park, Watsonia, South…
Yooralla was established in Balwyn in 1945. It was a hostel and school for children with a disability. It accommodated some Victorian wards of state. Yooralla also ran a respite care home and two family group homes. The Balwyn site and facilities were sold in 1993. Yooralla purchased a property on the corner of Belmore…
On 7 December 2010, the Salvation Army issued a national apology to former residents of its children’s homes in Australia who experienced abuse of any sort. The apology covered the period up until the early 1990s, according to the Salvation Army’s press release. The apology was made by General Shaw Clifton, the international leader of…
Family Information, Networks and Discovery (FIND) was a unit within the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) that assisted persons who were born or adopted in Victoria to access information and records about their adoption. FIND was formerly known as the Adoption and Family Records Service. FIND also offered the supported release of former…
The Maintenance Act 1928 (No. 3722) came into being at a time when many Victorian statutes were consolidated. Jaggs writes that the original 1919 Act (which had been amended in 1924) was not substantially altered in 1928. Two years after the passage of the Maintenance Act 1928, the number of Victorian children maintained with their…
North East Foster Care was established in around 1976. It was jointly auspiced by the Anglican Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes and St John’s Homes for Boys and Girls. From 1989, North East Foster Care’s Greensborough office was auspiced by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes, and the Preston office remained under…
St Joseph’s Nursery was established in 1959 and was situated in Gellibrand Street, Kew, close to the St Anthony’s Home. It provided temporary accommodation for children (who would previously have been housed at St Joseph’s in Carlton) and for some single mothers. The Nursery closed in 1976. St Joseph’s Nursery was established in 1959. It…
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