Reception Centre (1950 - 1990)

From

1950s

To

1990s

Categories

Type of 'care'

Location

Australia

A reception centre was an institution designed to provide short term 'care' for children before they were sent to a longer term placement (typically a foster Home). Children in reception centres often went through a process of 'classification' before being placed. The term came into use around the 1950s. Children would return to a reception centre after a foster care or institutional placement broke down.