Orphans children Children Disabled Children not seen initially Delinquent children Destitute Mothers as a group needing to be women Aboriginal people ‘Fallen’ accommodated separately Aboriginal people Provision (or lack of) for (in some colonies) newly-arrived assisted and non-assisted immigrants Immigrants poor ‘Deserving’ Providers of Government provides for Government Expansion in the number Increased dependence Government and private welfare convict subsidisation of agencies assisting by governments on bodies ‘welfare’ of private/charitable people in the 1930s voluntary agencies to Control of and women providers of welfare depression supply services Ideas about Religious providers New approaches to provided versus charitable of services assisting families in provision of welfare poverty, e.g. advocacy (rejection of the Poor Child rescuers Law concept) Government relief Mutual aid societies/ agencies/municipal relief Growth of non-convict/ self-help agencies ex-convict populations Women as providers Some states support Discernment of need to of services widowed parents to keep provide charity by their children at home religious/philanthropic with them organisations (Benevolent Society NSW established Figures: Brotherhood of 1813) St Laurence, Oswald
Orphans Children not seen initially as a group needing to be accommodated separately Provision (or lack of) for newly-arrived assisted and non-assisted immigrants children Delinquent children ‘Fallen’ women Aboriginal people (in some colonies) Immigrants ‘Deserving’ poor Children Destitute Mothers Aboriginal people Disabled Providers of welfare Government provides for convict ‘welfare’ Control of and women Ideas about versus charitable provision of welfare (rejection of the Poor Law concept) Growth of non-convict/ ex-convict populations Discernment of need to provide charity by religious/philanthropic organisations (Benevolent Society NSW established 1813) Government subsidisation of private/charitable providers of welfare Religious providers of services Child rescuers Mutual aid societies/ self-help Women as providers of services Expansion in the number of agencies assisting people in the 1930s depression New approaches to assisting families in poverty, e.g. advocacy Government relief agencies/municipal relief agencies Some states support widowed parents to keep their children at home with them Figures: Brotherhood of St Laurence, Oswald Increased dependence by governments on voluntary agencies to supply services Government and private bodies provided