Foster Homes – Proposed Establishment in the Northern Territory is an archival file containing correspondence between the Director of the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration and the Director of the Tasmanian Social Welfare Department. It contains information about receiving homes in Tasmania. Access Conditions Most government records are open for research 30 years…
Hagley State School, which was half a mile from the centre of Hagley in northern Tasmania, opened in 1855. In 1936, it was the site of Hagley Area School, which, shortly after that became Hagley Farm School. Sir Richard Dry, a Premier of Tasmania who owned the nearby Quamby Estate, donated the land for the…
The Education Act 1932 repealed all former Education Acts. It provided for a secular and compulsory education for children between the ages of 7 and 14. ‘Blind’, ‘deaf’, and ‘mute’ children had to attend school in an institution if their parents could not provide an alternative education. In effect this meant that the children would…
The Education Act 1905 provided for the establishment of kindergartens and the compulsory education of ‘blind, deaf and mute children’ between the ages of 7 and 16. If their parents could not provide an education, the children had to go to an institution. Many children went to the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution under the…
The Mental Diseases Hospital, New Norfolk replaced the Hospital for the Insane in 1915. It remained on the same grounds. The Mental Diseases Hospital housed children. In 1937, it became Lachlan Park Hospital. Between 1915 and 1920, the Mental Diseases Hospital Department ran the Mental Diseases Hospital. In 1920, the Public Health Department took it…
The Social Welfare Inquiry into Weeroona Girls’ Home was carried out by Dennis Daniels, the Director of the Social Welfare Department. It was into allegations made by two girls at Weeroona Girls’ Training Centre that they had been hit by the Principal and the Housemistress, a married couple. The Inquiry resulted in new safeguards to…
Reports to the Minister, an archival series, contains reports made by the Child Welfare Advisory Council about child welfare issues and individual institutions. Access Conditions Open Records The following items in this series relate to children’s homes: Item Number: AD253/1/4 Title: Ashley Home for Boys- Deloraine 1970. Date: 1970 Item Number: AD253/1/5 Title: Copies of…
The Inquiry into Weeroona Girls’ Training Centre by the Public Service Commissioner, MJ Jillett, took place in 1973. It followed a statutory declaration made by the former utility officer at the Home alleging that girls were hit by members of staff and kept in the secure unit for long periods of time with nothing to…
The Contagious Diseases Amendment Act 1881 also known by the full title ‘An Act to continue and amend “The Contagious Diseases Acts, 1879″‘ (Act no.45 Vict. No.23) provided for women confined to a contagious diseases hospital who refused to work to be placed in solitary confinement for seven days or prison for one month. The…
The Contagious Diseases Amendment Act 1879 also known by its full title ‘An Act to amend “The Contagious Diseases Act 1879″‘(Act no. 43 Vict. No. 5) provided for contagious diseases hospitals to be built. This had been omitted from the previous Contagious Diseases Act (Act no.42 Vict. No.5) passed earlier in 1879. ‘Contagious’ was a…
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