The Renwick Hospital for Infants was opened in 1911 by the Benevolent Society. The building had been the Thomas Street Asylum, but was converted to a babies’ hospital to deal with the epidemics of gastroenteritis that hit crowded Sydney streets in summer. It had 60 cots and also appears to have catered to lying-in mothers….
The Benevolent Society of New South Wales was established on 8 May 1813 and celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2013. It was founded to provide aid to the destitute, needy, sick and vulnerable aged people, women and children. For much of the nineteenth century it was effectively the social welfare arm of the New South…
Find-A-Family was established in Sydney in 1975 by Barnardos as a professional care, fostering and adoption program. It finds permanent care placements for children who have been removed by the courts, but works to ensure links are maintained with the child’s birth family. Find-A-Family Offices are located in Sydney, Canberra, Central Coast and South Coast,…
Temporary Family Care is a crisis and respite foster program run as part of Dr Barnardos in Australia. This program opened at the Waverley Centre in 1978; Auburn in 1984, Penrith in 1989 and Canberra and Illawarra in 1990.
Dr Barnardos in Australia was, from 1966, the name used by Dr Barnardo’s Homes (Australia Branch). In 1964 Dr Barnardo’s Homes had stopped its child migration scheme and began to offer a broad range of services to children and families in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. The name change reflected this shift…
Dr Barnardo’s Homes (Australia Branch) began in 1883 when eight boys travelled from Dr Barnardo’s Stepney Home, London, to Australia. From 1920 to 1965 Barnardos ran an official Immigration Scheme under which many children migrated to Australia. In the post-World War Two period, Barnardo’s established family group homes in New South Wales and the Australian…
Barnardos Australia was the new name given to Dr Barnardos in Australia around 1995. Barnardos Australia offers a range of services to children and families across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. These include accommodation, childcare, support programs, and permanency programs for out-of-home care including adoption, adolescent services, kinship care and foster care….
Great Lakes/Manning ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation, based at Taree. It was funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. In 2011 it was still active.
Hunter ACS was a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation that began in Newcastle in 1984 as a sub-project of the Aboriginal Legal Service, who had identified a need for an Aboriginal service to take responsibility for fostering Aboriginal children of the Hunter with Aboriginal families. By August 2013 it had closed. Hunter Aboriginal…
Koolyangarra Fostering Agency (Nowra) is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services.
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