On 25 October 2012 at 11.30 am, the Premier of Victoria, Ted Baillieu, Opposition leader Daniel Andrews and Nationals leader Peter Ryan addressed a joint sitting of the Victorian Parliament to apologise officially to all those who were affected by the forced adoption practices in the state between the 1950s and the 1970s. The Apology…
Lentara UnitingCare was formed as a result of UnitingCare Sunshine and Broadmeadows (UCSB) and Orana UnitingCare (OUC) agreeing to form a new organisation. Agreement was reached on 29 June 2012 to be effective from October 2012. In 2017, Lentara UnitingCare became part of the new organisation, Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited.
‘An Act to further amend the Law relating to Neglected and Criminal Children’ (Act no. 626) amended the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act 1864. It allowed for the Governor in Council to transfer any child in an industrial school to a reformatory school and vice versa for the period of their term of detention. Left…
This Act Number 693 amends the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act 1864. Section 10 sets out the amount to be paid out of consolidated revenue, five shillings per week per child maintained in every school established under the Act of 1864. Left to operation on 26/11/1881 Government Gazette No.7 1882, p. 146. This Act was…
The Success was a hulk [ship] anchored in Hobsons Bay. From 1869 it accommodated children over the age of seven who had been convicted under the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act of 1864. Later, the Success was used as the sleeping quarters for those boys described as ‘difficult’ who were living in the reformatory ship,…
CatholicCare was formerly known as Centacare Catholic Family Services. The name change was in line with other organisations within Catholic Social Services Australia, the peak body for Catholic community service providers in Australia. The new name was adopted to emphasise the continuing links between these services and the mission work of the Catholic Church. In…
The Sir Harry Smith, was a hulk (ship) anchored off Fishermans Bend, near Hobson’s Bay. From 1865, it housed mostly older boys sentenced under the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act of 1864. The Sir Harry Smith was anchored off Fishermans Bend in the River Yarra before it flowed into Hobson’s Bay. It was one of…
In July 2011 in response to an anonymous source providing information on the unsatisfactory storage and management of ward records by the Department of Human Services, the Victorian Ombudsman launched an investigation into these concerns. The report was submitted to the Parliament on 29 February 2012. Its major recommendation was that in consultation with the…
Records of Teresa Wardell (Reference number 1986.0123) are held at the University of Melbourne Archives. Teresa Wardell was one of Victoria’s first trained social workers. The records date from 1866 to 1984 and include records from her work with Catholic Social Service Bureau, the Children’s Welfare Department, the United Nations and the University of Melbourne…
On 17 April 2012 the Victorian Government announced the establishment of a Parliamentary inquiry into ‘matters relating to the handling of alleged child abuse by religious and other organisations’ . In response to Recommendation 48 of the Cummins Inquiry, the Family and Community Development Committee is requested ‘to inquire into, consider and report to the…
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