Inala Rudolf Steiner School for Curative Education was a residential special school for school-aged children at Cherrybrook. It was opened on 1 November 1958 on a five-acre property by Dr Hans Joachim and Mrs Kyra Pohl, along with a group of parents seeking accommodation support for their children with intellectual disabilities. It closed in 2005….
Miroma Special School was a Steiner School located in Vaucluse from 1966 to 2010. It was established by Susan Haris, a teacher who had trained at Inala in Cherrybrook. It is not clear when Miroma stopped providing residential care to children but by 2010 it was primarily offering services to adults with intellectual disabilities and…
Records of Dalwood Children’s Home are held by Northern Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records. The records held are Day Books dating from the late 1960’s. There are only minimal, if any, records from before then. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact the North Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records service. People…
Kingsdene Special School at Telopea provided schooling and residential care to children aged 10-18. It was run by Anglicare, who described it as being for children and young people with “moderate to severe intellectual disabilities”. It closed in 2010 due to a lack of funding to continue operations. At the time of closure Anglicare stated…
Please contact the GIPA Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records: Address: PO Box 4007, Royal North Shore LPO, St Leonards NSW 2065 Phone: (02) 9462 9947 Email: NSLHD-PrivacyandGIPA@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/AboutUs/gipa/Pages/default.aspx
Please contact the Librarian at Northcott: Address: The Northcott Library, Ground Floor, 1 Fennell Street, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 1800 818 286 Email: northcott@northcott.com.au Website:https://northcott.com.au/contact/
Find & Connect web resource staff were advised in January 2014 that the majority of records of the Margaret Reid Hospital for Crippled Children (1937-1981) have been destroyed. However, it appears that staff of Northcott hold some information about former residents of this Home. Access Conditions For access to any surviving records of the Margaret…
The Find & Connect web resource staff have been advised that any surviving records of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children are likely to be held by Northcott. Access Conditions For access to records of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children please contact Northcott.
The Part Aboriginal Education Scheme operated in Sydney. Little is known about it, including its official name or who ran it, but according to research done by the staff of the Northern Territory Department of Health, children from the Northern Territory were sent to Sydney to partake in the scheme.
The Christ Church Boys League Welfare Bureau was set up Sydney in 1936 by the Church of England’s Reverend John Hope, through the Home Mission Society, to help boys through the Children’s Court.
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