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 subsidisation Expansion in the number Increased dependence Government and private welfare convict of private/charitable of agencies assisting by governments on bodies ‘welfare’ providers of welfare people in the 1930s voluntary agencies to Control of girls and women depression supply services Religious providers about of services New approaches to versus charitable assisting families in provision of welfare Child rescuers poverty, e.g. advocacy (rejection of the Poor Mutual aid societies/ Law concept) Government relief self-help agencies/municipal relief Growth of non-convict/ agencies Women as providers ex-convict populations of services Some states support Discernment of need to widowed parents to keep provide charity by 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 girls and women 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 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
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