The Department of Christian Citizenship was an agency of the Methodist Church and replaced the Department of Social Services in 1965. It auspiced Westwood, a residential education centre at Bowral, and ran Iandra Methodist Rural Centre, St Andrews at Leppington and the Heighway House Project. When the Uniting Church formed in 1977 the Department of…
The House of the Good Shepherd on Pitt Street provided accommodation for females over the age of fourteen years. It opened in 1848, in the building of Carters’ Barracks, and was initially staffed by the Irish Sisters of Charity. In 1857 a new order was established to run the institution called the Sisters of the…
Cornwell Group Home was a family group home at Blacktown established around the 1980s. It was run by Church of England Homes as a temporary family group home for children. It closed in the late 1990s. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of its group homes: Cornwall [Cornwell],…
Cootamundra Training Home was established in a disused hospital building by the Aborigines Protection Board in 1911. It housed only Aboriginal girls, and was designed to train girls for domestic service. In 1940 its management passed to the Aborigines Protection Board. It continued as a girls’ home for Aboriginal girls until it was closed in…
Industrial Schools were institutions where children could receive industrial training. It was a model borrowed from England. The central idea was that neglected children with living parents needed to be taught to be industrious and be able to support themselves in the future. Notions about poverty in the nineteenth century saw poor people as lazy…
Coventry Home Records is a collection of records related to Coventry Home between 1952 and 1981 held by the Anglican Diocese of Armidale. There are three groups of relevant records: Register of Admissions and Discharges 1952-1981 Particulars of Illness of Children 1953-1977 Personnel files for various children. Access Conditions Records can be accessed by contacting…
In December 2018, the UK government announced they were establishing a payment scheme for former British Child Migrants. The scheme was for people who had been separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK government’s participation in child migration programs. The payment scheme was established in response to the Interim Report…
The National Redress Scheme was established by the Commonwealth government in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. The NRS was established in 2018 and was announced that it would run for 10 years. The National Redress…
The New South Wales Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme was established in 2017. It was created in response to the New South Wales government’s 2016 report, Unfinished Business, which recommended that a reparations scheme be established. The Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme provided ex-gratia payments of $75,000 to “living Stolen Generations survivors who were removed by, committed…
Kyle Williams Home was a family group home run by the Presbyterian Department of Social Services. It opened in 1985 in Blakehurst, Sydney. Previously, the property had been a Home run by Sydney Legacy, called Kyle Williams Legacy Home. It closed in 2003, when the government withdrew funding.
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