Diamantina Receiving Home

• Diamantina Receiving Depot and Infants' Home (1910 - 1962)
• Diamantina Receiving Home (1962 – 1964)
  • Warilda Children's Home and Warilda Infants' Home (1964 - 1967)

Run by

• Health and Home Affairs Department, State Children Department, State Government of Queensland (5 December 1935 - 26 December 1963)
  Date: 1962 - 1963
• Labour and Industry Department, State Children Department, State Government of Queensland (26 September 1963 - 1 August 1966)
  Date: 1963 - 1964

This page was written by Rosemary Francis, last updated 9 February 2024.

• Forde, Leneen et. al., Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Queensland institutions, May 1999. View Publication Details
• Queensland. Dept of Children's Services, Centenary of care for children 1879-1979, 1979. View Publication Details

For more information and to access your records, follow the links below:

Records

• Client Files, Queensland Government-run Institutions (c. 1865 - 2001)
• Operational Registers, Queensland Government-run Institutions (c. 1870 - c. 2001)
• Institution Files, Queensland Government-run Institutions (c. 1871 - c. 2001)
• Administrative Records, Queensland Government-run Institutions (c. 1865 - 2001)
• Report Books - Diamantina Receiving Depot and Infants' Home/Warilda (1960 - 1971)
• Vaccination Records - Diamantina Receiving Depot and Infant's Home/Warilda (1937 - 1981)
• Registers of Children in an Institution - Diamantina Receiving Depot and Infant's Home/Warilda (1954 - 1989)