M1283 [1] St John Bosco Boys Town contains correspondence between Boys’ Town and the Social Services Department. The correspondence is about psychological testing of boys, with their names, the lack of feminine influence at Boys’ Town and attempts to improve it, and Fathers Coles’ application to send some boys to West Australia. The file also…
The Tasmania Prison Service dates from 2000. It is located within the Department of Justice. In 2014, the Service manages the Risdon Prison Complex, Ron Barwick Minimum Security Prison, Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison, Hayes Prison Farm, the Hobart Reception Centre, and the Launceston Reception Centre. It holds an incomplete collection of prison records.
Tasmania Prison Service Records holds the records of the Risdon Prison Complex. The collection is incomplete. Some of the existing records contain personal information. Individuals wishing to access that information can contact the Tasmania Prison Service.
Mental Health Services is a division within the Department of Health and Human Services. In 2014, it offers care and treatment to people with mental illness, assistance to people affected by drug and alcohol, promotes mental health and wellbeing, and provides primary mental health care in the prison system.
The Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment is involved in activities that concern the built heritage, the environment, agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, and the management of property, titles, and maps. One of the Department’s predecessors, the Department of Environment and Planning, was sometimes involved in planning for the buildings occupied by children’s Homes.
Reeve House, run by the government, opened in about 1992 in Hadspen, near Launceston. As a family group Home, it provided temporary accommodation for children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Department of Community Services and its successors. Reeve House was still open in 2011. A married woman managed…
Eastville Receiving Home opened in Rokeby in 1979. The Home provided temporary accommodation for children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. It became Eastville Family Group Home in 1981. A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper, managed Eastville with the assistance of her husband,…
The Overseas League was founded in London in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench with the aim of strengthening relationships and fostering good will within the British Empire. It was based in England, and had branches across Australia. The Overseas League was involved in the migration of children from Britain to Australia, New Zealand, and Canada,…
M365 British Evacuee Children Nominated to Australia – Overseas League, contains correspondence between the Tasmanian government and the Overseas League between 1947 and 1950. The correspondence concerned the League’s scheme to bring British child migrants to Tasmania. The file also contains some newspaper clippings. There are no names of children. Access Conditions Open These records…
M440 Young Men’s Christian Association – Youth Migration Scheme contains correspondence between the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration, the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department, and the Young Men’s Christian Association about the possibility of bringing British boys, aged between 14 and 16, to Tasmania as migrants. The correspondence suggests that this never happened. Access Conditions…
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