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…
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys was established at Mittagong in 1906. In accordance with the provisions of the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act, 1905 it was proclaimed as an Industrial School and Probationary Training Home for boys aged 8 to 17 on 5 June 1906. ‘Delinquent’ boys were sent to Mittagong from the Children’s…
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 for 8 children aged between 6 and 14 years old, located in Marrickville and staffed by Aboriginal people. It opened at Harney…
Crecy Group Home was opened at Eastwood (also known as Marsfield) in 1969. It was run by the Church of England (Anglican) Diocese of Sydney as a children’s home. The first children to live at Crecy were transferred there from the Anglican Killara Composite Group Home at Carlingford. Crecy closed in December 1978.
Tress Manning Temporary Care was situated at Carlingford and was a temporary care programme for children. It was run by the Church of England Homes from around 1970 until around 1990.
Field Cottage was situated at Carlingford. It was run by Church of England Homes as a children’s home from about 1970 until about 1990.
Kingsleigh Group Home was established by Church of England Homes at Blacktown in 1978, at a time when the Anglican Home Mission Society was focusing its welfare programs in the Western Sydney area. It was a temporary accommodation service, providing crisis care for up to seven children. In July 2000, Kingsleigh Group Home changed its…
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 December 1992. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of its…
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