Kingsleigh Group Home was established by Church of England Homes in St Ives in 1980. It moved to a new location in Blacktown around 1984, at a time when the Anglican Home Mission Society was focusing its welfare programs in the Western Sydney area. Kingsleigh Group Home was a temporary accommodation service, providing crisis care…
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…
Orana Group Home was opened in 1970 at Wahroonga. It was run by the Church of England Homes as a home for children. It closed in 1977.
Havilah Little Children’s Home was established in a house called Havilah in Hinemoa Road, Normanhurst in 1918 by the Church of England Diocese of Sydney.(This was also known as Havilah Wahroonga). It was a home for infant children aged under six years. Havilah Little Children’s Home was established by the Homes and Hostels Committee for…
The Church of England Girls’ Home was opened in Carlingford in 1928, in the same buildings, Minden and No. 2 Home that had previously operated as the Church of England Boys’ Home. From 1928, girls were transferred from the four homes of the Child Rescue Home in Glebe Point and No. 2 Home became known…
The Church of England Boys’ Home was for boys aged 6 to 18 years. It was established by Church of England Homes in 1918 in a rented house in Cronulla, before moving in 1920 to Carlingford occupying the building ‘Minden’. Boys were sometimes transferred from the Church of England home, Havilah, upon reaching the age…
Kingsbury Farm Reformatory was a training farm for Protestant boys that opened in Newstead in April 1893. It was operated on the ‘family system’, run by a married couple, and had capacity for six boys. Boys were sent to Kingsbury from other reformatories in order to learn practical farm skills, such as land clearing, dam-making,…
St John’s by the Sea, in Beach Road, Sandringham, was a cottage-style Home for 20 boys. It was run by St John’s Home for Boys. It opened in 1951, was still open in 1954, and possibly closed in 1958. The residents of St John’s by the Sea included child migrants from Britain. The Home was…
South Yarra Hostel was established in a vacant building on the Methodist Babies’ Home site. Run by Wesley Central Mission it was described as a ‘supportive hostel for young people’. The Mission closed down South Yarra Hostel in February 1982. The hostel’s residents were taken on as clients by the Richmond Fellowship of Victoria (a…
Wandin Yallock Reformatory School, or ‘Fernydale’, was opened in 1886 as a private reformatory for boys. Fernydale was established to reform ‘juvenile offenders’ by providing them with farm training. In 1893 Fernydale was proclaimed a reformatory under the Juvenile Offenders Act 1887 and received boys from the government reformatory which closed in April of that…
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