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Tasmania - Archival Item

Social Welfare Organisation-Lucinda (formerly Weeroona) DO63/2 (1980 - 1983)

From
1980
To
1983
Website
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=AD583/1/290
Reference No
AD583/1/290
Legal Status
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Item Number

Social Welfare Organisation-Lucinda (formerly Weeroona) DO63/2 is a file created by the Social Welfare Department. It concerns staffing issues following the closure of Weeroona Girls' Training Centre and its replacement with Lucinda Resource Centre.

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The record is a useful source of information about the Centre, the Lucinda Family Group Home, also established on the site of Weeroona, and the Social Welfare Department's policy of replacing institutions with resource centres in an attempt to prevent children from becoming wards of the state.

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Prepared by: Caroline Evans