Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865 (1865 - 1911)

From

1865

To

1911

Categories

Principal Act

Location

Queensland

The Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865 - with the full title "An Act to provide for the establishment of Industrial and Reformatory Schools" (Act no. 8/1865, 29 Vic No.8) set up special schools to educate and care for neglected children and young offenders under the age of 15 years. The Act allowed Indigenous children to be sent to industrial schools or reformatories on the ground of 'neglect'. Simply being Aboriginal was proof of neglect. For the purposes of the Act, missions were declared to be industrial schools or reformatories to which Indigenous children could be sent. The act was repealed by the State Children Act 1911 on the 30th of November 1911 (Act no. 2 Geo.V.No.13).

Timeline

1865 - 1911

Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865

1911 - 1966

State Children Act 1911