Allambie Reception Centre

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prison_name=Allambie Reception Centre
location=Burwood, Victoria
status=Closed
classification=?
capacity=?
opened= 1960
closed=
managed_by=? fFamily Welfare Division, Social Welfare Department, later Community Services Victoria

Allambie Reception Centre was a Victorian Children's Home run by the Family Welfare Division of the Social Welfare Department and opened in 1960. Allambie was located at 70 Elgar Road, Burwood, Victoria, Australia. The facility was designed to accommodate children from infancy to age 14.

The institutions had run by the Presbyterian Church under the name "Kildonan" but the Social Welfare Department purchased the institution and managed it under the Family Welfare Division. (The Social Welfare Department had responsibility for young people under two separate divisions; the Youth Welfare Division (14-18 years olds and offenders) and the Family Welfare Division 0-14 year olds)

Allambie accommodated children of both sexes. Prior to its opening, children had been housed at Turana Youth Training Centre in Parkville. The move to Allambie meant that young children of both sexes could be accommodated together.

Deakin University Burwood Campus is now situated on the old Allambie site.

Allambie was situated opposite "Orana " Children's Home which was a private children's Home run along a "cottage system" and owned by the Methodist Church.

Report of the Child Welfare Practice and Legislation Review, equity and social justice for children, families and communities, (Carney report) 1984

Report on the Future of Social Welfare in Victoria (Dixon white paper) 1978

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Child Care Services in Victoria (Norgard report) 1976

Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Advisory Committee, (Barry report), 1956.

Children’s Welfare Department and Department for Reformatory Schools, Annual Reports, 1955 - 61.

Social Welfare Department, Annual Reports, 1962 - 75.

Department of Community Welfare Services, Annual Reports, 1979 - 84.

Department of Community Services, Annual Reports, 1986 - 89

Children’s Welfare Act (Vic), 1954.

Children’s Welfare Act (Vic), 1958.

Children’s Court Act (Vic), 1958.

Social Welfare Act (Vic),1960.

Social Welfare Act (Vic), 1970

Community Services Act (Vic), 1987.

Children and Young Persons Act (Vic), 1989

Gaffney. K, "The Best of Intentions? Winlaton Youth Training Centre 1956-1993" MA Thesis, (unpublished) 1998.

Gaffney, K. “From Eugenics to Deinstitutionalisation; Winlaton Youth Training Centre 1956-1999” in “Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives ed J. Damousi and K. Ellinghaus" The University of Melbourne Melbourne, 2000 pp. 393-404