State Government of Queensland
The Family Services Department was created from the former Family and Youth Services Department on 14 December 1987. The new department gained responsility for Intellectual Handicap Services. The department was responsible for juvenile justice facilities. It was amalgamated with the departments of Community Services and the Office of Ethnic Affairs to form the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs on 7 December 1989.
The Family Services Department was created from the former Family and Youth Services Department on 14 December 1987 when a significant re-organisation of ministerial portfolios occurred. As a part of this, the new department gained responsility for Intellectual Handicap Services, formerly a part of the Health Department, and lost ethnic affairs, youth services and the Queensland Recreation Council.
1879 - 1911 Public Instruction Department, Orphanages Branch
1911 - 1935 Home Secretary's Office, State Children Department
1935 - 1963 Health and Home Affairs Department, State Children Department
1963 - 1966 Labour and Industry Department, State Children Department
1966 - 1987 Children's Services Department
1987 Family and Youth Services Department
1987 - 1989 Family Services Department
1989 - 1996 Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Department
1996 - 1998 Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
1996 Department of Family and Community Services
1996 - 2001 Department of Families, Youth and Community Care
1998 - 2001 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development Department
2001 - 2006 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Department
2001 - 2004 Department of Families
2004 - 2009 Child Safety Department
2004 - 2012 Communities Department
2004 - 2012 Communities Department
2004 - 2012 Communities Department
2012 - 2015 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Department
2012 - 2017 Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services Department
2015 - 2020 Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
2017 - 2020 Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
2020 - Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs, State Government of Queensland
2020 - Department of Seniors, Disability Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Family Services Department II (Agency ID 9719)', in Queensland State Archives website, Queensland Government, 2004 - 2013, http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Search/AgencyDetails.aspx?AgencyId=9719.
Prepared by: Lee Butterworth
Created: 18 August 2013, Last modified: 17 September 2014
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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