Youth Residential Centre is a term from the Victorian Children and Young Persons Act 1989. It described an institution for the detention of offenders under the age of 15. Young people aged 15 or over were detained in a Youth Training Centre. The term also appeared in the Children Youth and Families Act 2005, which…
The Northcote School Act, No. 6700, was passed in 1960 to make it possible for children other than British Child Migrants to be placed at the Northcote Farm School. According to the preamble of the Act: the Northcote School can provide accommodation for at least one hundred children; the English trustees have recently been unable…
The Northcote Trust Fund Act, No. 8678, was passed in 1975 to pass control of the Northcote Farm School to the Victorian Government, and to sell the land on which the Northcote Farm School and transfer ownership to the Victorian Government. According to the preamble of the Act: the English trustees had determined to cease…
A Sanatorium was a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with the treatment of tuberculosis. Several institutions existed in Australia where children and young people spent long periods recovering from illness. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Sending Agency was the name given to the organisation responsible for arranging the migration of children to Australia from the United Kingdom or Malta. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Temporary Care is a term to describe the short-term, emergency, respite or crisis accommodation of children and young people. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Therapeutic Residential Care (or TRC) describes placements for children and young people in an environment to help them recover from the effects of trauma from abuse or neglect. In these placements, the child or young person lives with carers with specialised training and accesses specialist therapists. Click here to see the full Find & Connect…
Non-Government Organisation, or NGO, is a broad term for charities, not-for-profit agencies and religious organisations which provide services to the community, including services to support families and out-of-home ‘care’ programs. It is commonly used in New South Wales. In some states and territories, including Victoria, such organisations are known as Community Service Organisations, or CSOs….
The Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society Receiving Home in La Trobe Street, Melbourne, was a Home for the temporary care of children. It was closely associated with child rescuer Selina Sutherland who established the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society in 1894. From the early 1880s Sutherland had been taking in children as part of her…
Swinburne House was opened by the Victorian Children’s Aid Society around 1968 in Black Rock. The Victorian Children’s Aid Society Home had previously been located in Parkville, at a property they sold in 1966. In 1968, Swinburne House accommodated 34 children, aged between 3 and 18 years and was also the headquarters of the Society….
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