The Probationary Farm Home, Dora Creek, was established at Dora Creek in 1900 by the State Children’s Relief Department as a special institution for boys whose behaviour was such that they might otherwise have been institutionalised in Newcastle Hospital for the Insane. Dora Creek was a farm home, under the supervision of a private farmer,…
Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies was located at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children and was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1913. In 1915, when the New South Wales Government resumed Randwick Asylum for use as accommodation for World War I soldiers, Hillside Home moved to Ormond House in Paddington. It…
Hillside Training Home for Girls was established in Ormond House in Paddington in 1920 by the State Children’s Relief Department. It was a home that trained girls aged 10 to 14 in domestic service. It possibly closed when the State Children’s Relief Board became the Child Welfare Department and its activities were moved from Ormond…
The Raymond Terrace Home was established by the State Children’s Relief Department in 1913. It was for boys who were defined at the time as being ‘feeble-minded’ and replaced the Private Probationary Home at Dora Creek. It also included boys who, for various reasons, were considered unable to be placed with other children. It held…
‘Quipolli’, or ‘Quipolly’, was the name of a house in Leura that was used as a girl’s home by Church of England Homes in the 1930s. It was for girls aged up to 15 years, some of whom had come from the Havilah Little Children’s Home at Normanhurst. There were 28 girls resident in the…
Dalwood Children’s Home, at Seaforth, was a home for mothers and babies set up by the Food for Babies Fund in 1924. In 1931 it began to provide temporary accommodation for children. In 1989 Dalwood stopped operating as a children’s home. Non-residential programs continue on the site, in 2024 it is known as the Dalwood…
Mittagong Cottage Homes were established from 1885 by the State Children’s Relief Board. They were houses that each held 20 children, ranging in age from infancy to adolescence. The first were in the Mittagong township but in 1896 they moved to the Southwood Estate on Bong Bong Road, where further cottages were added. The cottages…
Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre at Kariong was the new name given in 1991 to the Mount Penang Detention Centre. It was run by the Department of Community Services. Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre closed in 1999 and its functions were taken over by Kariong Juvenile Correction Centre. The site of Mount Penang Juvenile Justice…
The Renwick Association was an organisation of people who were associated with the Mittagong cottage homes and Renwick, from 1885 to 1994. Its members included former residents (‘Govos’), former workers and house parents, as well as family members and local people who are interested in the history of this institution. The Renwick Association was incorporated…
Gosford Training School was the new name given in 1923 to the Gosford Farm Home for Boys. It was an industrial school for boys aged 13 to 18 who were committed for ‘serious offences’ or had been deemed ‘unsuitable for training under the conditions of the Mittagong Farm Home’. It was run by the Child…
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