Carramar Adoption Agency was established in 1961, and was known by that name until 1965, when it became the Church of England Adoption Agency. In 1978 the name was again changed, to Anglican Adoption Agency. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services. In 1963 seventy girls entered Carramar, some so young…
The Church of England Adoption Agency was known as the Carramar Adoption Agency until 1965. In 1978 the name was again changed, to Anglican Adoption Agency. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services.
The Anglican Adoption Agency was known as the Church of England Adoption Agency until 1978. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services.
Anglicare Adoption Services was established in 1997. Previously it was known as the Anglican Adoption Agency. It is a specific part of the Anglicare Out of Home Care Services and of the Anglicare Telepea Office that supports adoption services. This includes providing ongoing support to all main parties in a past adoption made through the…
Anglicare Welfare Services, Sydney was the welfare division of Anglicare New South Wales (formerly the Anglican Home Mission Society) which in turn was the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church (Church of England). Charlton Youth Services was part of Anglicare Welfare Services. Care Force (later known as Anglicare Child and Family…
Charlton Youth Services was an agency of the Anglican Home Mission Society and, after Anglicare was formed in 1985, of Anglicare Welfare Services. It was formed to manage Charlton Boys Homes in the 1950s. Charlton Youth Services provided care for older boys, many of whom were referred by the courts. By 2012, the name Charlton…
The New South Wales Protestant Federation Children’s Home was situated in Garnet Street, Hurlstone Park, on the border of Dulwich Hill. It was founded in 1921 and, despite the title, was a girls’ home that in the 1940s held up to 90 girls at a time. It closed in 1980. As Garnet Street forms the…
Cooinoo Home for Destitute Children was established in 1924 at Burwood then moved to Enfield in 1938. It was administered by a Board connected with St Thomas’ Anglican Parish, Enfield. It housed up to 25 children aged two to 13 years. While it was established as a children’s home it also served as a girls’…
Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care, was a programme for Aboriginal children run by Church of England Homes on behalf of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care was a family group home, located in Marrickville and staffed by Aboriginal people. It opened in 1979 and closed in the late 1990s. There was a second…
Buckland Group Home was situated at North St Marys and was established by Church of England Homes in 1978. It was run by the Diocese of Sydney as a family group home offering temporary care for children until the late 1990s. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of…
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