Allambie Reception Centre was a Victorian Children's Home run by the Family Welfare Division of the Social Welfare Department and opened in 1960. Allambie was located at 70 Elgar Road, Burwood, Victoria

Burwood, Victoria

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. The facility was designed to accommodate children from infancy to age 14.

The institutions had run by the Presbyterian Church under the name "Kildonan" but the Social Welfare Department purchased the institution and managed it under the Family Welfare Division.