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Challenge Community Services

Challenge Community Services was established in 2013. It was previously known as Challenge Disability Services. Challenge Community Services provides disability services and out of home care, foster care, residental care and emergency response children’s services in New South Wales. Challenge Community Services ran Pathways Adolescent Unit from 1st October 2013.

Crowle Foundation

Crowle Foundation was established in 1993. It was previously the Ryde branch of the Challenge Foundation. The Crowle Foundation ran Crowle House from 1993 to 2008. The Crowle Foundation became part of Achieve Australia on 31st December 2008.

Diocese of Newcastle Children’s Homes

The Diocese of Newcastle Children’s Homes is a collection of records held by the University of Newcastle, related to children’s Homes and out-of-home-care services run by the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle from 1918 to 1987. Homes mentioned in these records include St Elizabeth’s Girls Home; St George’s Training Farm Home for Boys; St Alban’s Boys’…

Samaritans Foundation

The Samaritans Foundation was established on 14 October 1984 to undertake the social welfare work of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle. Previously it was known as the Newcastle Anglican Board of Social Work.

The Infants’ Home, Ashfield, Records

The Infants’ Home, Ashfield, Records is a collection of records created by The Infants’ Home between 1874 and 2002 and held by the State Library of New South Wales.This collection consists of registers and lists of resident children, children’s admission and discharge information, child health records, family records files, historical and operational records and minutes….

Australian Indigenous Ministries Aggregated Collection of Records and Pictorial Material, 1903-2003

Australian Indigenous Ministries Aggregated Collection of Records and Pictorial Material, 1903-2003 is an aggregated collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It comprises a large amount of records created between 1903 and 2003 by the Australian Indigenous Ministries and its predecessor, the Aborigines Inland Mission. The aggregated collection is created from four…

Care Leavers Records and Archives – Contact Details

Please contact the Care Leavers Records and Archives: Phone: 0437 870 478 Email: careleaversarchive@anglicare.org.au Website: https://www.anglicare.org.au/resources/policies-and-information/care-leavers-records/

Anglicare Out of Home Care Records

The Anglicare Out of Home Care Records comprise records relating to children and young people in foster care and residential care programs run by Anglicare. After a young person has been discharged, Anglicare Out of Home Care Services keeps their records in this collection for 1 to 2 years. Following that period, the records are…

Department of Education and Communities, State Government of New South Wales

The Department of Education and Communities was established in 2011. Previously it was the Department of Education and Training.

Depositions [Metropolitan Children’s Court]

Depositions [Metropolitan Children’s Court] are the records of the daily proceedings in the Metropolitan Children’s Court No. 2. Frequently for the larger courts, agendas of each day’s business and full details of each case brought before the Court are included, while for the smaller courts, depositions of proceedings are sometimes interfiled. There are gaps in…