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Children spent varying amounts of time in institutions and foster care and the majority entered care at a young age. Many spent their entire childhood and youth in an orphanage or children's home. [4] The Australian Senate used the figure of half-a-million when reporting on its 2003–04 'Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care'. [5]
It was formed in 2007 and absorbed the former Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. As a result of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013, the Department of Social Services was established and assumed most of the responsibilities of FaHCSIA; with indigenous affairs functions assumed by the ...
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (also known as FaCSIA) was an Australian government department that existed between January 2006 and December 2007. The department which preceded the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs was the Department of Family and Community Services (1998 ...
According to the Administrative Arrangements Order made on 21 October 1998, the Department dealt with: [3] Income security policies and programs; Services for people with disabilities and families with children; Community support services, excluding the Home and Community Care program; Family relationship services; Welfare housing
The site was the central point of child welfare in NSW, being the first place most children saw after they were taken from their families and the transit point for their referral to other institutions or programs. As a result, this was the place many members of the Forgotten Australians and Stolen Generations entered "care". [1] [2]
From its establishment in 2009 until the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011, the department was known as the Department of Human Services. [ 1 ] Until its 2019 abolition, the department provided services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people , children and young people, families, people who are homeless, people with a ...
The department was formed by way of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013 [4] and replaced the majority of the functions previously performed by the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA); with the exception of Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, that was transferred to the Department of the Prime Minister ...
The Redfern Aboriginal Children's Services, also known as Redfern Aboriginal Children's Services and Archives, or simply Aboriginal Children's Services (ACS), is a community services organisation for Indigenous Australian children in Sydney, Australia. The heritage-listed building, also known as Denholme, is a former residence, built from 1874 ...