This is an image of a detail from a Ward Index Card dating from the 1970s. The detail shows the type of records kept by the Victorian Social Welfare Department about a child or young person’s ‘movements’, i.e. admissions and discharges to different institutions.
[From SLV catalogue]; Shows chapel, homes and drinking fountain and bench on corner of street; woman with toddler in pram walking on path.
[St Johns Home for Boys was located at 16 Balwyn Road Canterbury].
This is a copy of an image published in the annual report for the Children’s Welfare Department for 1958.
This is a copy of an image published in the annual report for the Children’s Welfare Department for 1958. “Kalimna” was one of the ten family group homes operated by the Children’s Welfare Department in 1958, all located in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
This is a copy of an image published in the annual report for the Children’s Welfare Department for 1958.
This is a copy of an image published in the annual report for the Children’s Welfare Department for 1958.
This is a copy of an image published in the annual report for the Children’s Welfare Department for 1958.
Collection of newsclippings, apparently compiled by employees of the Neglected Children’s Department. The articles are about child welfare issues, primarily in Victoria. This album would have been a resource for the department’s staff.
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