Omaru Receiving Home

Location

Launceston
TAS Australia

Provider

Date Opened

Date Closed

Omaru Receiving Home

Union Street

Launceston

TAS

Australia

Provider: Government run

Year Opened: 1910

Year Closed: 1968

This home accommodated children who had become wards of the state and children under the supervision of child welfare departments. It provided temporary accommodation to children who had passed through successive child welfare departments. It was also know as Receiving Home, Launceston.

Articles Mentioning this Home:

Listen to the children: review of claims of abuse from adults in state care as children – Event – Find & Connect – Tasmania (findandconnect.gov.au)

February 2008 – Report of the Stolen Generations Assessor

CLAN Homes – Orphanages Gallery

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CLAN Museum Gallery

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CLAN library books where this Home is mentioned include:

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