Glendonald School for Deaf Children history in brief
Glendonald School for Deaf Children was run by the Victorian Education Department. It provided education and some residential services for deaf children.
The school was situated in Marshall Avenue, Kew and operated from 1951–91.
Deaf children whose families lived too far to travel daily were housed in a grand Victorian mansion in Belmont Avenue, Kew, the John Cannon Hostel. The school and hostel also accommodated a small number of wards of the state.
Department of Health and Human Services’ records for this agency may relate only to children who were wards of the state.
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Source
File VH-0077-78 in collection AS/1990/009 (departmental collection number)
, viewed 11 April 2016. [Library catalogue references including a summary of the content of a book entitled More than a school: Glendonald School for Deaf Children 1951–1991. Author: Duerdoth P and Vlahogiannis N, published Burwood Vic, Victoria College Press, 1992.]
List of records held by the department
For information relating to the central management of care leavers and wards of state, please consult the guide to Central department wardship and out-of-home care records. These collections date back to the 1860s and include ward registers, index cards and ward files.
Voluntary children's homes files (c.1930–c.1985)
File ; Permanent VPRS Number 18069 / P0002
Content: The files record interaction between the various voluntary homes and the government. This filing system was created in 1975, combining earlier correspondence and other records to create one system with VH prefixes.
The specific file relating to the Glendonald School for Deaf Children is dated 1972 to 1982 and includes:
- correspondence regarding classification of Glendonald School for Deaf children, which mentions two wards of state, 27 December 1972
- correspondence regarding two wards of state and their funding to board at Glendonald School for the Deaf and Andrew Kerr Home, 19 July 1971 to 14 March 1972.
- newspaper article regarding Glendonald School for the Deaf, Herald, 27 August 1973
- correspondence regarding a financial agreement for a particular child in care between Glendonald School for the Deaf and Princess Elizabeth Kindergarten Cottage, 30 September to 6 October 1975
- correspondence regarding the classification of John Cannon Hostel for Deaf Children, 8 November 1982.
Reviewed 10 August 2016