Santa Marina, at Waverley, was opened by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1919. It was as a home for babies, expectant mothers and mothers with babies. In its first year of operation it housed a total of 123 mothers and 138 babies, for an average of 3 to 6 months. Santa Marina was opened…
Cicada, in Croydon, was opened by the State Children’s Relief Board in Queen Street in 1911. It housed mothers (mostly young women and pregnant state wards) and their babies, as well as babies who were without their mothers. In 1919 it moved to another house in the same suburb. In 1919, 416 women and 456…
The Probationary Farm Home, Dora Creek, was established at Dora Creek in 1900 by the State Children’s Relief Department as a special institution for boys whose behaviour was such that they might otherwise have been institutionalised in Newcastle Hospital for the Insane. Dora Creek was a farm home, under the supervision of a private farmer,…
Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies was located at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children and was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1913. In 1915, when the New South Wales Government resumed Randwick Asylum for use as accommodation for World War I soldiers, Hillside Home moved to Ormond House in Paddington. Hillside…
Hillside Training Home for Girls was established in Ormond House in Paddington in March 1919 by the State Children’s Relief Department. It was a home that trained girls aged 10 to 14 in domestic service. In 1919, the home briefly closed so it could be used for people who had the Spanish Flu, during the…
The Raymond Terrace Home was established by the State Children’s Relief Department in 1913. It was for boys who were defined at the time as being ‘feeble-minded’ and replaced the Private Probationary Home at Dora Creek. It also included boys who, for various reasons, were considered unable to be placed with other children. It held…
‘Quipolli’, or ‘Quipolly’, was the name of a house in Leura that was used as a girl’s home by Church of England Homes in 1926. It was for girls aged up to 15 years, some of whom had come from the Havilah Little Children’s Home at Normanhurst. There were 28 girls resident in the home…
Dalwood Children’s Home, at Seaforth, was a home for mothers and babies set up by the Food for Babies Fund in 1924. In 1931 it began to provide temporary accommodation for children. In 1989 Dalwood stopped operating as a children’s home. Non-residential programs continue on the site, in 2024 it is known as the Dalwood…
Mittagong Cottage Homes were established from 1885 by the State Children’s Relief Board. They were houses that each held 20 children, ranging in age from infancy to adolescence. The first were in the Mittagong township but in 1896 they moved to the Southwood Estate on Bong Bong Road, where further cottages were added. The cottages…
Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre at Kariong was the new name given in 1991 to the Mount Penang Detention Centre. It was run by the Department of Community Services. Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre closed in 1999 and its functions were taken over by Kariong Juvenile Correction Centre. The site of Mount Penang Juvenile Justice…
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