Authorised residential institutions which formed the basis of government social services for children in 19th century New Zealand.[i] Enabled Provincial Councils to establish ‘industrial schools’ to which the courts could commit neglected, indigent or delinquent children.[ii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Margaret Tennant, The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government, and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005, 2007, p. 30.; Wai 2915, p. 28.
- [ii] go to main content Bronwyn Dalley, Family Matters, Wellington, 1998, p. 16.;Margaret McClure, A Civilised Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand 1898–1998, Auckland, 1998, p. 12.; Department of Social Welfare, Social Welfare Today, Wellington, 1980, p. 3.