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Mowbray Park

Mowbray Park was a farm training school for child and youth migrants run by Dr Barnardo’s Homes (Australia Branch) at Picton. The school was initially for boys and girls aged six to fifteen years, but was later used only for boys. Around 200 children could be accommodated within the 6 cottages that were built at…

Dr Barnardos in Australia

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)

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

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

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

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)

Koolyangarra Fostering Agency (Nowra) is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services.

Cowra ACS

Cowra ACS was a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation. It was funded by the New South Wales Government until 2008. It was based at Erambie, the old Aborigines Welfare Board Station.

Wagga Wagga ACS

Wagga Wagga ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation. It was funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. It was active in 2012.

St Marys ACS

St Marys ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. In 2012 it appeared to be active.