OPAL House was started by Muriel Langford and Joyce Wilding. Joyce Wilding was also the matron at OPAL House.
OPAL House was registered as a foster home and licensed as registered premises in 1966. It was licensed as a residential institution on 7 August 1970.
In 1978 there were 30 residents at OPAL House, some of them were children. Correspondence files from 1980 indicate that 2 children were living at OPAL House, even though the facility was not funded to house children at that time.
OPAL has advised the Find & Connect web resource that it no longer has any records relating to children who were resident in their homes.
In 2021, the Queensland government has agreed to be a funder of last resort for this institution. This means that although the institution is now defunct, it is participating in the National Redress Scheme, and the government has agreed to pay the institution's share of costs of providing redress to a person (as long as the government is found to be equally responsible for the abuse a person experienced).
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The Find & Connect Support Service can help people who lived in orphanages and children's institutions look for their records.
Last updated:
05 November 2021
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/qld/QE00134
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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