The Anglican Adoption Agency was known as the Church of England Adoption Agency until 1978. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services.
Robinson House was established at Ashfield by the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the 1970s. It was on the site of the former Milleewa Home, in Ashfield, and replaced the Charlton Boys Home. It appears this home moved to Campbelltown at a later date, where it was run by Charlton…
Anglicare Adoption Services was established in 1997. Previously it was known as the Anglican Adoption Agency. It is a specific part of the Anglicare Out of Home Care Services and of the Anglicare Telepea Office that supports adoption services. This includes providing ongoing support to all main parties in a past adoption made through the…
Trigg Hostel was established by the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in 1979 in Granville. It replaced the Trigg Working Boys Hostel that had previously been located as part of the Church of England Boys’ Home, and briefly on the site of the Church of England Girls’ Home in Molly-Trigg Cottage…
In 1986 the Sydney Anglican Home Mission Society took over management of the Lisgar Hostel in Arncliff from the Church of England Deaconess Institute. It was a long term residential unit for girls aged 12 to 18. It was later run by Charlton Youth Services, later known as Anglicare Youth Services. In 1989 the Home…
Carramar Homes at Girraween and Turramurra were established by the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and were later run by the Church of England (Anglican) organisation Charlton Youth Services. These homes closed in 2014. Carramar was later called Carramar Cottages and, in 2012, was known as Carramar Early Interventions and based…
Charlton Memorial Home, also known as Charlton Boys’ Home, was established in Glebe by the Home Mission Society in 1942. It was a Church of England home that primarily dealt with boys who had appeared in Children’s Courts, but also took girls. It held up to 40 young people, ranging in age from seven to…
Anglicare Welfare Services, Sydney was the welfare division of Anglicare New South Wales (formerly the Anglican Home Mission Society) which in turn was the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church (Church of England). Charlton Youth Services was part of Anglicare Welfare Services. Care Force (later known as Anglicare Child and Family…
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…
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