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Care Provider
Care provider is an umbrella term that refers to the group or organisation responsible for providing and administering out-of-home 'care' for children. Although this term was not in common usage before the late twentieth century, this website applies it to describe all organisations which operated 'care' services, no matter when they were active.
Aborigines Protection Association (1881 - c. 1897)
Aborigines Protection Board (1883 - 1940)
Aborigines Welfare Board (1940 - 1969)
Adelaide Walker Home (c. 1953 - c. 1990)
Adolescent Program (Anglicare Canberra Goulburn) (1986 - 1996?)
Airlie (1914 - 1941)
Algate House (1968 - 1996)
Allanville Home (c. 1976 - 1990s)
Anglewood (1943 - 1994)
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd (1891 - )
Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn (1863 - )
Anglican Homes for Children Association (1918? - )
Anglicare Out-of-Home Care Services (2008 - )
Anglicare Welfare Services
Arncliffe Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
Arncliffe Girls' Industrial Home (1916 - 1930)
Ashfield Home (c. 1921 - 1980s)
Atherstone House (1962 - 1977)
Australian Protestant Orphans' Society (1916? - 1961?)
Australian Red Cross (1914 - )
Australian Youth and Health Foundation (1985 - )
Bailey Cottage (1969 - 1980?)
Bailey, L.O. (Leslie Owen) (1891 - 1964), Care Provider and Philanthropist
Balmain Industrial School (1910 - 1924)
Baptist Community Services (1986 - )
Barnardos Australia (c. 1995 - )
Bathurst Maternity and Rescue Home (1890s - 1919)
Belhaven Home for Mothers and Babies (1942 - 1948)
Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)
Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1813 - )
Berry Training Farm (1934 - 1977)
Bethesda Home for Waiting Mothers (c. 1904 - c. 1976)
Bethesda Maternity Hospital (1956 - 1973)
Bexley Boys' Home (1915 - 1982)
Bidura (1920 - 1977)
Big Brother Movement (1925 - ), Big Brother Movement Youth Support Ltd
Biloela Industrial School, Cockatoo Island (1867 - 1887)
Bimbadeen Girls Home (1969 - 1974)
Bishop Murray Memorial Home (1910 - 1960)
Blackwood (1921 - 1984)
Blairgowrie (1911 - 1952)
Blue Ribbon Gospel Army (c. 1882 - ?)
Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home (1908 - ?)
Boronia (1976 - 1990s)
Boys' Town Engadine (1939 - 2010)
Broken Hill Shelter (c. 1905 - )
Brougham (1943 - 1993)
Brush Farm Home (1922 - 1988)
Brush Farm House (1820 - )
Brush Farm Infants' Home (1968 - 1988)
Brush Farm Reformatory (1908 - 1912)
Buckland Group Home (1978 - )
Buena Vista (1950 - 1982)
Bungarimbil Adolescent and Family Care Program (c. 1989 - )
Bungarimbil Boys' Home (1957 - 1983)
Bungarimbil Children's Home (? - 1983)
Burnside (1986 - 2000)
Burnside Homes for Children (1978 - 1986)
Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children (1955 - 1978)
Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes (1911 - 1955)
Burwood Maternity Home (1898 - )
Bush Church Aid Society (1919 - )
'Byrnes' Family Group Home (1983 - )
Camp Toukley (1950? - )
Canowindra Girls' Home (1942 - 1977)
Care Force (1984 - 1997)
Carisbrook (1975 - 1995)
Carpentarian Reformatory for Boys (1894 - 1908)
Carramar Homes (c. 1950 - 1980s)
Castle Hill House (1943 - 1982)
CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services (2011 - )
Centacare Adoption Services (1990 - 2011)
Centacare Catholic Community Services Sydney (1967 - 2011)
Central Methodist Mission, Sydney (1885 - 1977)
Central Mission Home for Neglected Children (1893 - 1900)
Charlton Boys' Home, Ashfield (1966 - 1991)
Charlton Boys' Home, Glebe (1942 - 1966)
Charlton Youth Services (1950s - )
Child Welfare Department (1923 - 1970)
Christian Brothers
Christina Campbell Farm Home (1941 - 1952)
Church Army (1932 - )
Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes, Mulgoa (1942 - c. 1945)
Church Missionary Society of Australia (1916 - )
Church of England Boys' Home, Carlingford (1917 - 1970s)
Church of England Children's Homes, Burwood (1927 - 1993)
Church of England Girls' Home (1913 - 1970s)
Church of England Homes (c. 1884 - 1984)
Church of England Orphanage (1893 - 1927)
Churches of Christ NSW (1930? - )
Cicada Home I, Croydon (1911 - 1919)
Cicada Home II, Croydon (1919 - 1930s)
Clairvaux (1970s - 1990s)
Clifton Lodge (1980s - )
Cobham Juvenile Justice Centre (1980s - 1990s)
Commonwealth Street Mission (1910s - 1970s)
Communicare Sydney (c. 2000 - 2011)
Cooinoo Home for Children (1924 - 1938)
Cooinoo Home for Destitute Children, Enfield (1938 - 1970?)
Coomballa Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
Cootamundra Training Home (1911 - 1969)
Corelli (1919 - ?)
'Cornerstone' home (1990s - )
Cornwell Group Home (1970? - 1980?)
Cottage Home for Feeble-Minded Children, Parramatta (1908 - ?)
Coventry Home (1933 - 1985?)
Cowley House (1946? - 1976)
Cowra ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - 2008?)
Crecy Group Home
Croagh Patrick Home (1928 - 1969)
Croagh Patrick Orphanage (1969 - 1982)
Cronulla Children's Home (1916 - 1946?)
Crown Street Women's Hospital (1893 - 1983)
Crusaders Camp Mission Hostel (1940? - 1946?)
Cumbrae (1912 - 1987)
Dalmar (c. 1900 - ), Wesley Mission
Dalwood Children's Home (1924 - 1989)
Dareton Aboriginal Youth Development Association Inc (1987 - 1990)
Dareton Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation (1990 - ?)
Daruk (1940s)
Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul (1926 - )
Daughters of our Lady of Compassion
Deaconess Children's Home and Domestic Training School (1893 - 1914)
Dee Why Home for Boys (? - 1936)
Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare (1970 - 1973)
Department of Community Services (1992 - 2009)
Department of Family and Community Services (II) (2011 - )
Department of Health and Community Services (1991 - 1992)
Department of Human Services (2009 - 2011)
Department of Justice and Public Instruction (1873 - 1881)
Department of Juvenile Justice (1990 - )
Department of Youth and Community Services [I] (1973 - 1975)
Department of Youth and Community Services [II] (1976 - 1988)
Department of Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs (1975 - 1976)
Diocese of Sydney, Anglican Church of Australia
Dr Barnardo's Homes (Australia Branch) (1883 - 1966)
Dr Barnardos in Australia (1966 - 1995)
Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home (1922 - 1983), Strathfield
Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home for Children (1911 - 1982), Auburn
Drummoyne Lodge (1980s - ?)
Dulwich Hill Family Group Home (1989 - 1995)
Dunkeld (1913 - )
Dunlea Centre (2010 - )
Dunmore House (1936 - ?)
Earlwood Family Group Home (1989 - 1995)
Eastwood Home for Mothers and Babies (1915 - 1922)
Eddy's Adolescent and Support Services (1989 - )
Eddy's Place (1989 - )
Eleanor MacKinnon Junior Red Cross Home (1945? - 1980?)
Ellimatta (1945 - c. 1990)
Elsie Cook Cottage (c. 1969 - 1977?)
Endeavour House (1976 - 1990)
Eskdale (1915 - 1980)
Fairbridge Farm School (1938 - 1973)
Fairfax House (1968 - 1976)
Faulds House (1976 - 1988)
Female Orphan School (1818 - 1850)
Female School of Industry (1827 - 1926)
Field Cottage
Find-A-Family (1975 - )
'The Fold' Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
Foster Care Program (Salvation Army) (c. 1984 - c. 1994)
Foundation for Young Australians (1999 - )
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (1941 - )
Garth (1924 - 1935?)
George Brown College (1942? - 1946?)
Gill Memorial Boys' Home (1936 - 1980)
Gill Memorial Family Group Home (1980 - 1995)
Glen Eden (1947 - 1961)
Glen Mervyn Junior Red Cross Home (1940? - 1980?)
Glencoe (1918 - 1949)
Good Samaritan Training Centre (1948 - 1982)
Good Shepherd Sisters (1857 - 1866)
'Gordon' Family Group Home (1967 - 1986)
Gosford Farm Home for Boys (1912 - 1923)
Gosford Training School (1923 - 1945)
Government Agricultural Farm, Scheyville (1905 - 1940)
Grafton Shelter (1923? - 1990s)
Great Lakes/Manning ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Greenwood (1951 - 1968)
Guildford Truant School for Boys (1917 - 1939)
Gumleigh (1956 - c. 1990)
Gunning House (1951 - c. 1982)
Haddon Hall (1950 - 1967)
Hall for Children (1970s - 1997)
Halloween Children's Home (c. 1925 - c. 1935)
Hargrave House (1920? - 1940?)
Harold Lodge (1980s - ?)
Hartwell House (1960 - 1970)
Havilah Little Children's Home (1918 - 1970s)
Heighway House Project (1960 - 1977?)
Hillcrest Mothers' Hospital (1933 - 1977)
Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies (1913 - 1920)
Hillside Training Home for Girls (1920 - ?)
Hohnen House (1988 - )
Holy Family Children's Home (1956 - 1985)
Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon (1909 - 1911?)
Home for Sick Infants, Paddington (1907 - 1913)
Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women (1883 - 1904)
Home of the Good Shepherd (1913 - 1969)
Hopeleigh Maternity Home (c. 1910 - 1956)
Hopewood (1944 - 1970)
The Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God (1947 - ), New South Wales
Hostel for Business Girls (1950s - 1970s)
Hunter ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1984 - )
Hunter Mission (1992 - )
Iandra Lodge (1975 - ?)
Iandra Methodist Rural Centre (1956 - 1974)
Illawong (1963 - 1974)
Inasmuch Children's Home (1958 - 1986)
The Infants' Home, Ashfield (1874 - )
Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia (1981 - 2011), ISMA
The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (2011 - ), ISMAPNG
Institution for Boys, Tamworth (1948 - 1976)
Institution for Girls, Hay (1961 - 1974)
Integricare (2011 - )
Isabella Lazarus Home for Jewish Children (1939 - 1967)
Ivanhoe (1919 - 1984)
Jubilee Home (1887 - 1960?)
Juong Red Cross Home (1925 - c. 1944)
Kamballa (c. 1974 - 1983)
Karingal Children's Home (1956 - 1986)
Kariong Juvenile Justice Centre (1999 - 2004)
Karmsley Hills (1947 - 1971)
Karril Cottage (1980s)
Katie Julia Thompson Memorial Home (1968 - 1993)
Keelong Remand Centre (1978 - )
Kemblawarra Child and Family Centre Inc. (1980 - )
Kendall Grange (1948 - )
Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys (1923 - 1970)
King Edward Home (c. 1930 - 1970?)
King Edward VII Home, Auburn (c. 1910 - c. 1920)
Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents (1994 - )
Kingsleigh Group Home (1970? - 1980?)
Kingston House (1987 - )
Kippilaw (1940? - 1960?)
Koolyangarra Fostering Agency (Nowra) (1980? - 2008)
Kyle Williams Home (1947 - 2003)
La Perouse Training School for Girls (1928 - 1939)
Ladd House (1968 - 1976)
Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies (1914 - 1936)
The Laurels (1950 - 1978)
Lawson Cottage (1927 - 1930)
Legacy (1925 - )
Leith House (c. 1960 - ), Baptist Community Services (BCS)
Lemon Grove Lodge (1980s - ?)
Lillimur (1947 - 1978)
Lincluden (1931 - 1988)
Lisgar Children's Home (1914 - 1935)
Lisgar Home, Oatley (1970? - 2002)
Lisgar Hostel (1955 - 1986)
Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants (1870 - 1909)
Liverpool Asylum (1851 - 1961)
Lutanda Children's Home (1930 - )
Lynwood Hall (1939 - 1993)
Male Orphan School (1819 - 1850)
Manly Boys' Probationary Home (1903 - ?)
Manly Industrial School and Orphanage (1881 - 1910)
Marist Brothers (1872 - )
Marrickville Children's Residence (1979 - 1985?)
Maryville Mothers' Hospital (1924 - 1933)
Masonic Orphan Schools (1922 - c. 1924)
Mater Dei Orphanage (1910 - 1957)
Mater Dei School (1957 - )
Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1906 - 1982)
May Villa (1919 - 1960?)
McCredie Cottage (1970 - 1993)
Melrose (1952 - 1980)
Mercy Family Centre, Waitara (1977 - 2001)
Methodist Church (1812 - 1885)
Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship ( - 1977)
Metropolitan Boys' Shelter (1911 - 1983)
Milleewa Home for Boys (1919 - 1966)
Milson Island (1924 - 1973)
Minali Receiving and Assessment Centre (1975? - 1998)
Minda Remand Centre (1966 - 2003)
'Minnamurra' Family Group Home (1975 - 1999)
Mission Australia (1996 - )
Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys (1906 - 1947)
Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947 - 1976)
Monte Pio Orphanage (1960 - 1973)
Montrose (1920s - 2000s)
'Montrose' Family Group Home (1965 - 1986)
Morpeth Home for Children (1920 - 1964)
Mount Penang Detention Centre (1988 - 1991)
Mount Penang Training School for Boys (1946 - 1987)
Mowbray Park (1929 - 1959)
Mt Gibraltar (1930 - 1974)
Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre (1991 - 1999)
Murray Dwyer Boys' Home (1933 - 1969)
Murray Vale (1958 - 1983)
Myee (1926 - 1970s)
Narwee Family Group Home (1987 - 1996)
Nautical School Ship 'Vernon' (1867 - 1892)
'The Nest' Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
'New Anchor' home (1990s)
New South Wales Aboriginal Children's Services (1975 - )
New South Wales Baptist Homes Trust (1944 - 1986)
New South Wales Protestant Federation Children's Home (1921 - 1980)
Newcastle Industrial School for Females (1867 - 1871)
Newcastle Maternity and Rescue Home (1897 - 1924)
Newtown Maternity and Rescue Home (1892 - 1898)
North Coast Children's Home (c. 1935 - )
Novar (1916 - 1952)
Nunya Foster Care (1988 - )
Ohio Boys Home (c. 1950 - c. 1965)
On Track (1994 - )
Open All Night Refuge (c. 1882 - 1950s)
Orana (1978 - 1990s)
Orana Group Home
Ormond House (I) (1852 - 1858), Society for the Relief of Destitute Children
Ormond House (II) (1884 - 1923), State Children's Relief Department
Ormond, Thornleigh (1946 - 1998)
Our Babies Home (1894 - 1904)
Our Boy's Home (1890 - 1945)
Our Children's Home (1918 - 1982), Ardill House
Our Children's Home, Liverpool (1887 - 1936)
Our Lady of Mercy Home, Waitara (c. 1928 - 1977)
Pallister Girls Home (1929 - 1945), Lisgar Trust
Paradise Boys' Industrial Colony (1897 - 1903)
Parramatta Girls Industrial School (1887 - 1975)
Pathways Adolescent Unit (1991 - )
Peat Island (c. 1904 - 2010)
Phillip Cottage (1977 - 1988)
Pitt Street House of the Good Shepherd (1857 - 1901)
Presbyterian Church of Australia (1803 - )
Probationary Farm Home, Branxton (1890s - 1915?)
Probationary Farm Home, Rydalmere (1891 - 1894)
Probationary Farm Home, Toronto (1909 - 1912?)
Protestant Orphan School (1850 - 1886)
Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Babies (1895 - 1978)
Quipolli Children's Home (c. 1930)
Raith (1978? - 1990?)
Raith Lark Hill Hostel (c. 1978 - 1990?)
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children (1858 - 1915)
Rathgar (1941 - 1983)
Rathmore (1943 - 1948)
Raymond Terrace Home (1913 - 1930?)
Reiby Training School (1973 - )
Reid Home (1922 - 1977)
Renwick (1976 - 1994)
Renwick Hospital for Infants, Summer Hill (1920 - 1965)
Renwick Hospital for Infants, Thomas Street (1911 - 1920)
Rickard House (1962 - 1978)
'Ritchie' Family Group Home (1984 - 1986)
Ritchie Home (1928 - 1941)
Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre (1984 - )
Robertson (1919 - 1976)
Robinson Home (1970s)
Rockdale Babies Home (1894 - 1976)
Roman Catholic Orphan School (1844 - 1886)
Rosemount (1976 - 1981)
Roslyn Hall Babies Home (1911 - 1973)
Roslyn Hall Children's Home (? - 1976)
Ross (1935 - 1985)
Royal Far West (1924 - )
Royal Hospital for Women (1901 - )
Royal North Shore Hospital (1885 - )
Royleston (1922 - 1983)
Ruhamah (1959 - 1985)
Salesians of Don Bosco (1922 - )
The Salvation Army (1882 - )
Salvation Army Girls' Hostel (1924 - ?)
Santa Marina (1919 - ?)
Scarba House for Children (1965 - 1986)
Scarba Welfare House for Children (1920 - 1965)
Scarba Welfare House for Women and Children (1917 - 1920)
Scone Farm School (c. 1959 - 1982)
Shaftesbury Home for Babies and Mothers (1914 - 1915)
Shaftesbury Reformatory School (1880 - 1904)
Sherbrook Residential Care Unit (1991 - )
Shuna Red Cross Home (1923? - 1946?)
Sisters of Charity of Australia (1815 - )
Sisters of Mercy, Bathurst Congregation (1867 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Goulburn Congregation (1859 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Grafton Congregation (1884 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Gunnedah Congregation (1887 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation (1865 - )
Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta Congregation (1888 - )
Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1872 - )
Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name (1888 - )
Sisters of the Good Samaritan (1866 - )
Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1863 - )
Sisters of the Holy Cross
Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
'Sobraon' Training Ship (1892 - 1911)
Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children (1887 - )
Son of the Rock (1920 - 1979)
South Sydney Women's Hospital (1890 - 1976)
St Alban's Home for Boys (1964 - 1980)
St Andrew's Home (c. 1960 - 1986)
St Anne's Children's (Emergency) Centre (1979 - 1985)
St Anne's Group Homes (1960s - 1977)
St Anne's Home (1898 - 1941)
St Anne's Home of Compassion (1941 - 1984)
St Anne's Orphanage (1888 - 1977)
St Anthony's Home Croydon (1925 - )
St Anthony's Petersham (1922 - 1925)
St Brigid's Girls' Home (1898 - 1978)
St Carthage's College for Young Ladies (1907 - 1931)
St Catherine's Orphanage (1931 - 1990)
St Christopher's Home for Little Children (1928 - 1978)
St Edmund's School (1951 - )
St Elizabeth's Girls Home (1926 - 1977)
St Gabriel's (1922 - 1980)
St George's Training Farm Home for Boys (1927 - 1930)
St Heliers (c. 1920 - 1975?)
St John's Home, Auburn Street (1976 - 1987)
St John's Home, Goulburn (1905 - 1978)
St John's Orphanage Thurgoona (1882 - 1978)
St Joseph's Cowper (1993 - ?)
St Joseph's Cowper Children's Homes (1972 - 1993)
St Joseph's Cowper Incorporated (1990? - )
St Joseph's Girls' Home (1900 - 1979)
St Joseph's Home for Children, Croydon (1926 - 1979)
St Joseph's Orphanage (1864 - 1975)
St Joseph's Orphanage, Bathurst (1867 - 1975)
St Joseph's Orphanage, Cowper (1914 - 1972)
St Joseph's Orphanage, Kincumber (1887 - 1979)
St Joseph's Providence (1880 - 1900)
St Magdalen's Refuge Buckingham Street (1903 - 1936)
St Magdalen's Retreat (1887 - 1947)
St Margaret's Home for Unwed Mothers (1894 - 1982?)
St Margaret's Hospital (1894 - 1998)
St Martha's Industrial Home (1888 - 1969)
St Marys ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
St Michael's Boys' Home (1902 - 1960s)
St Michael's Children's Home (1960? - 1982)
St Michael's Church of England War Memorial Children's Homes (c. 1954 - 1970?)
St Michael's Family Centre (1960s - )
St Michael's Orphanage (1902 - c. 1960)
St Patrick's Home (1976 - 1984)
St Patrick's Orphanage (1919 - 1976)
St Saviour's Children's Home (1929 - 1982)
St Saviour's Cottage Home (1982 - 1986)
St Saviour's Neighbourhood Centre Goulburn (1980 - )
St Vincent de Paul Society (1881 - ), New South Wales
St Vincent's Boys Home (1891 - 1985)
Stanmore Children's Home (1927 - 1987)
Stanmore Rescue Home (1896 - ?)
State Children's Relief Board (1881 - 1923)
State Children's Relief Department (1881 - 1923)
Stonehaven (1929 - 1951)
Stretch-A-Family Inc (1976 - )
Sunnylands (1955 - 1997)
Sydney City Mission (1862 - 1996)
Sydney Female Refuge (1880s - 1926)
Sydney Foundling Hospital (1875 - 1877)
Sydney Foundling Institution (1874 - 1875)
Sydney Home for Babies (1910 - 1911)
Sydney Norland Nurseries (1910 - 1920?)
Sydney Rescue Work Society (1890 - c. 2000)
Tahmoor Children's Home (1941 - 1979)
Taldree (1974 - 1980)
Tallimba Home (1980s)
Tarana (1960 - 1977)
Temporary Family Care (1978 - )
Theresian Emergency Centre (1966 - 1983)
Thirlmere Babies' Home (1907 - 1913)
Thomas Street Asylum (1904 - 1911)
Thorington (1973 - 1981)
Thornbury Lodge (1950? - 1990?)
Thornleigh Training School for Girls (1946 - 1962)
Timaru (1970s - ?)
Toongabbie (1948 - 1961)
Training School for Midwifery Nurses (c. 1911 - 1976)
Tresillian Mothercraft Homes (1918 - ), Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies
Tresillian North Home (1927 - )
Tresillian Vaucluse (c. 1935 - 1968)
Tresillian Wollstonecraft (1940 - )
Tress Manning Temporary Care
Trigg Home (1950s - c. 1998)
Troup (1933 - 1977)
United Aborigines Mission (1894 - )
United Protestant Association of New South Wales Ltd. (1938 - )
Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility (1977 - )
Uniting Church in Australia (1977 - )
UnitingCare Burnside (2000 - )
Wagga Wagga ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Waitara Foundling Home (1898 - 1927)
Wanslea (1945 - ?)
War Memorial Home (1922 - 1982)
Warangesda Dormitory (1893 - 1912)
Waverley Cottage, Mittagong (1940s)
Weroona Home (1970? - 1985?)
Werrington Park (1954 - ?)
Wesley Mission, Sydney (1977 - )
Wesleyan Methodist Church of New South Wales (1912 - )
Westwood (1965 - 1979)
William Thompson Masonic School (c. 1924 - 1972)
Winbin (1954 - 1990s)
Windsor Farm Home for Boys (1920s - 1940s)
Women's Australian National Service (1940 - ?)
Woodlands (1944 - 1981)
Worimi Shelter (c. 1975 - )
Wyatt Lodge (1980s - 1993)
Wybalena (1976 - 1990s)
Yarra Bay House (c. 1917 - 1985)
Yasmar Shelter (1946 - 1994)
Yawarra Training School (1969 - 1979)
Young People's Refuge (1976 - )
Youth Welfare Association of Australia (1942 - 1985), YWAA
Catholic
A person or institution affiliated with the Catholic Church.
Balmain Industrial School (1910 - 1924)
Bishop Murray Memorial Home (1910 - 1960)
Boys' Town Engadine (1939 - 2010)
Care Force (1984 - 1997)
Catholic Adoption Agency (1967 - 1990)
Catholic Children's Homes Enquiry Service (1994 - ), CatholicCare Adoption Services
Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (1940s - 1967)
CatholicCare (2011 - )
CatholicCare Adoption Services (2011 - )
CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services (2011 - )
Centacare Adoption Services (1990 - 2011)
Centacare Newcastle (1965 - 2011)
Centacare, Broken Bay (1988 - )
Christian Brothers
Croagh Patrick Home (1928 - 1969)
Croagh Patrick Orphanage (1969 - 1982)
Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul (1926 - )
Daughters of our Lady of Compassion
Dunlea Centre (2010 - )
Eddy's Adolescent and Support Services (1989 - )
Eddy's Place (1989 - )
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (1941 - )
Good Samaritan Training Centre (1948 - 1982)
Good Shepherd Sisters (1857 - 1866)
Holy Family Children's Home (1956 - 1985)
Home of the Good Shepherd (1913 - 1969)
The Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God (1947 - ), New South Wales
Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia (1981 - 2011), ISMA
The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (2011 - ), ISMAPNG
Kendall Grange (1948 - )
Manly Industrial School and Orphanage (1881 - 1910)
Marist Brothers (1872 - )
Marist Youth Care
Mater Dei Orphanage (1910 - 1957)
Mater Dei School (1957 - )
Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1906 - 1982)
Mercy Family Centre, Waitara (1977 - 2001)
Methodist Church (1812 - 1885)
Monte Pio Orphanage (1960 - 1973)
Murray Dwyer Boys' Home (1933 - 1969)
Our Lady of Mercy Home, Waitara (c. 1928 - 1977)
Pitt Street House of the Good Shepherd (1857 - 1901)
Roman Catholic Orphan School (1844 - 1886)
Rosemount (1976 - 1981)
Salesians of Don Bosco (1922 - )
Sherbrook Residential Care Unit (1991 - )
Sisters of Charity of Australia (1815 - )
Sisters of Mercy Archives (North Sydney)
Sisters of Mercy, Bathurst Congregation (1867 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Goulburn Congregation (1859 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Grafton Congregation (1884 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Gunnedah Congregation (1887 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation (1865 - )
Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta Congregation (1888 - )
Sisters of Mercy, Singleton Congregation (1875 - 2011)
Sisters of Mercy, Wilcannia-Forbes Congregation (1890 - 2011)
Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1872 - )
Sisters of the Good Samaritan (1866 - )
Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1863 - )
Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
St Anne's Children's (Emergency) Centre (1979 - 1985)
St Anne's Group Homes (1960s - 1977)
St Anne's Home (1898 - 1941)
St Anne's Home of Compassion (1941 - 1984)
St Anne's Orphanage (1888 - 1977)
St Anthony's Home Croydon (1925 - )
St Anthony's Petersham (1922 - 1925)
St Brigid's Girls' Home (1898 - 1978)
St Carthage's College for Young Ladies (1907 - 1931)
St Catherine's Orphanage (1931 - 1990)
St Gabriel's (1922 - 1980)
St John's Home, Auburn Street (1976 - 1987)
St John's Home, Goulburn (1905 - 1978)
St John's Orphanage Thurgoona (1882 - 1978)
St Joseph's Cowper (1993 - ?)
St Joseph's Cowper Children's Homes (1972 - 1993)
St Joseph's Cowper Incorporated (1990? - )
St Joseph's Girls' Home (1900 - 1979)
St Joseph's Home for Children, Croydon (1926 - 1979)
St Joseph's Orphanage (1864 - 1975)
St Joseph's Orphanage, Bathurst (1867 - 1975)
St Joseph's Orphanage, Kincumber (1887 - 1979)
St Joseph's Providence (1880 - 1900)
St Magdalen's Refuge Buckingham Street (1903 - 1936)
St Magdalen's Retreat (1887 - 1947)
St Margaret's Hospital (1894 - 1998)
St Michael's Boys' Home (1902 - 1960s)
St Michael's Children's Home (1960? - 1982)
St Michael's Family Centre (1960s - )
St Michael's Orphanage (1902 - c. 1960)
St Patrick's Home (1976 - 1984)
St Patrick's Orphanage (1919 - 1976)
St Vincent's Boys Home (1891 - 1985)
Theresian Emergency Centre (1966 - 1983)
Toongabbie (1948 - 1961)
Waitara Foundling Home (1898 - 1927)
Children's Home
Children's Home is a term used to describe institutions providing out-of-home 'care' for children. The term was commonly used during the period from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Adelaide Walker Home (c. 1953 - c. 1990)
Airlie (1914 - 1941)
Algate House (1968 - 1996)
Anglewood (1943 - 1994)
Arncliffe Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
Arncliffe Girls' Industrial Home (1916 - 1930)
Ashfield Home (c. 1921 - 1980s)
Belhaven Home for Mothers and Babies (1942 - 1948)
Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)
Berry Training Farm (1934 - 1977)
Bexley Boys' Home (1915 - 1982)
Bidura (1920 - 1977)
Bimbadeen Girls Home (1969 - 1974)
Bishop Murray Memorial Home (1910 - 1960)
Blackwood (1921 - 1984)
Blairgowrie (1911 - 1952)
Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home (1908 - ?)
Boys' Town Engadine (1939 - 2010)
Brush Farm Home (1922 - 1988)
Brush Farm House (1820 - )
Brush Farm Reformatory (1908 - 1912)
Buena Vista (1950 - 1982)
Bungarimbil Boys' Home (1957 - 1983)
Bungarimbil Children's Home (? - 1983)
Burnside (1986 - 2000)
Burnside Homes for Children (1978 - 1986)
Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children (1955 - 1978)
Canowindra Girls' Home (1942 - 1977)
Carisbrook (1975 - 1995)
Carramar Homes (c. 1950 - 1980s)
Castle Hill House (1943 - 1982)
Central Mission Home for Neglected Children (1893 - 1900)
Charlton Boys' Home, Ashfield (1966 - 1991)
Charlton Boys' Home, Glebe (1942 - 1966)
Christina Campbell Farm Home (1941 - 1952)
Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes, Mulgoa (1942 - c. 1945)
Church of England Boys' Home, Carlingford (1917 - 1970s)
Church of England Girls' Home (1913 - 1970s)
Cicada Home II, Croydon (1919 - 1930s)
Clairvaux (1970s - 1990s)
Cooinoo Home for Children (1924 - 1938)
Cooinoo Home for Destitute Children, Enfield (1938 - 1970?)
Corelli (1919 - ?)
Cottage Home for Feeble-Minded Children, Parramatta (1908 - ?)
Coventry Home (1933 - 1985?)
Cowley House (1946? - 1976)
Croagh Patrick Home (1928 - 1969)
Croagh Patrick Orphanage (1969 - 1982)
Cronulla Children's Home (1916 - 1946?)
Crusaders Camp Mission Hostel (1940? - 1946?)
Cumbrae (1912 - 1987)
Dalmar (c. 1900 - ), Wesley Mission
Dalwood Children's Home (1924 - 1989)
Deaconess Children's Home and Domestic Training School (1893 - 1914)
Dee Why Home for Boys (? - 1936)
Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home (1922 - 1983), Strathfield
Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home for Children (1911 - 1982), Auburn
Dunkeld (1913 - )
Dunlea Centre (2010 - )
Dunmore House (1936 - ?)
Eleanor MacKinnon Junior Red Cross Home (1945? - 1980?)
Ellimatta (1945 - c. 1990)
Endeavour House (1976 - 1990)
Eskdale (1915 - 1980)
Faulds House (1976 - 1988)
Female School of Industry (1827 - 1926)
'The Fold' Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
Garth (1924 - 1935?)
George Brown College (1942? - 1946?)
Gill Memorial Boys' Home (1936 - 1980)
Glen Eden (1947 - 1961)
Glen Mervyn Junior Red Cross Home (1940? - 1980?)
Glencoe (1918 - 1949)
Gosford Training School (1923 - 1945)
Grafton Shelter (1923? - 1990s)
Gumleigh (1956 - c. 1990)
Gunning House (1951 - c. 1982)
Haddon Hall (1950 - 1967)
Hall for Children (1970s - 1997)
Halloween Children's Home (c. 1925 - c. 1935)
Hargrave House (1920? - 1940?)
Havilah Little Children's Home (1918 - 1970s)
Heighway House Project (1960 - 1977?)
Hillside Training Home for Girls (1920 - ?)
Holy Family Children's Home (1956 - 1985)
Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon (1909 - 1911?)
Hopewood (1944 - 1970)
Inasmuch Children's Home (1958 - 1986)
The Infants' Home, Ashfield (1874 - )
Isabella Lazarus Home for Jewish Children (1939 - 1967)
Ivanhoe (1919 - 1984)
Juong Red Cross Home (1925 - c. 1944)
Karingal Children's Home (1956 - 1986)
Karmsley Hills (1947 - 1971)
Karril Cottage (1980s)
Katie Julia Thompson Memorial Home (1968 - 1993)
Kendall Grange (1948 - )
Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys (1923 - 1970)
King Edward Home (c. 1930 - 1970?)
King Edward VII Home, Auburn (c. 1910 - c. 1920)
Kippilaw (1940? - 1960?)
Kyle Williams Home (1947 - 2003)
The Laurels (1950 - 1978)
Lawson Cottage (1927 - 1930)
Lillimur (1947 - 1978)
Lincluden (1931 - 1988)
Lisgar Children's Home (1914 - 1935)
Lisgar Home, Oatley (1970? - 2002)
Lutanda Children's Home (1930 - )
Male Orphan School (1819 - 1850)
Manly Boys' Probationary Home (1903 - ?)
Manly Industrial School and Orphanage (1881 - 1910)
Marrickville Children's Residence (1979 - 1985?)
Masonic Orphan Schools (1922 - c. 1924)
May Villa (1919 - 1960?)
McCredie Cottage (1970 - 1993)
Melrose (1952 - 1980)
Metropolitan Boys' Shelter (1911 - 1983)
Milleewa Home for Boys (1919 - 1966)
Milson Island (1924 - 1973)
Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947 - 1976)
Monte Pio Orphanage (1960 - 1973)
Montrose (1920s - 2000s)
Morpeth Home for Children (1920 - 1964)
Mount Penang Detention Centre (1988 - 1991)
Mt Gibraltar (1930 - 1974)
Murray Dwyer Boys' Home (1933 - 1969)
Murray Vale (1958 - 1983)
Myee (1926 - 1970s)
'The Nest' Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
New South Wales Protestant Federation Children's Home (1921 - 1980)
North Coast Children's Home (c. 1935 - )
Novar (1916 - 1952)
Ohio Boys Home (c. 1950 - c. 1965)
Ormond House (I) (1852 - 1858), Society for the Relief of Destitute Children
Ormond House (II) (1884 - 1923), State Children's Relief Department
Our Children's Home (1918 - 1982), Ardill House
Our Children's Home, Liverpool (1887 - 1936)
Our Lady of Mercy Home, Waitara (c. 1928 - 1977)
Pallister Girls Home (1929 - 1945), Lisgar Trust
Paradise Boys' Industrial Colony (1897 - 1903)
Peat Island (c. 1904 - 2010)
Phillip Cottage (1977 - 1988)
Probationary Farm Home, Toronto (1909 - 1912?)
Quipolli Children's Home (c. 1930)
Raith (1978? - 1990?)
Raith Lark Hill Hostel (c. 1978 - 1990?)
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children (1858 - 1915)
Rathgar (1941 - 1983)
Rathmore (1943 - 1948)
Reid Home (1922 - 1977)
Renwick (1976 - 1994)
Renwick Hospital for Infants, Summer Hill (1920 - 1965)
Renwick Hospital for Infants, Thomas Street (1911 - 1920)
Ritchie Home (1928 - 1941)
Robertson (1919 - 1976)
Robinson Home (1970s)
Roslyn Hall Babies Home (1911 - 1973)
Roslyn Hall Children's Home (? - 1976)
Ross (1935 - 1985)
Royleston (1922 - 1983)
Ruhamah (1959 - 1985)
Salvation Army Girls' Hostel (1924 - ?)
Santa Marina (1919 - ?)
Scarba House for Children (1965 - 1986)
Scarba Welfare House for Children (1920 - 1965)
Scarba Welfare House for Women and Children (1917 - 1920)
Shuna Red Cross Home (1923? - 1946?)
Son of the Rock (1920 - 1979)
St Alban's Home for Boys (1964 - 1980)
St Andrew's Home (c. 1960 - 1986)
St Anne's Children's (Emergency) Centre (1979 - 1985)
St Anne's Group Homes (1960s - 1977)
St Anthony's Home Croydon (1925 - )
St Brigid's Girls' Home (1898 - 1978)
St Carthage's College for Young Ladies (1907 - 1931)
St Catherine's Orphanage (1931 - 1990)
St Christopher's Home for Little Children (1928 - 1978)
St Elizabeth's Girls Home (1926 - 1977)
St Gabriel's (1922 - 1980)
St Heliers (c. 1920 - 1975?)
St John's Home, Auburn Street (1976 - 1987)
St John's Home, Goulburn (1905 - 1978)
St John's Orphanage Thurgoona (1882 - 1978)
St Joseph's Cowper (1993 - ?)
St Joseph's Cowper Children's Homes (1972 - 1993)
St Joseph's Cowper Incorporated (1990? - )
St Joseph's Girls' Home (1900 - 1979)
St Joseph's Home for Children, Croydon (1926 - 1979)
St Joseph's Orphanage (1864 - 1975)
St Joseph's Providence (1880 - 1900)
St Martha's Industrial Home (1888 - 1969)
St Michael's Boys' Home (1902 - 1960s)
St Michael's Children's Home (1960? - 1982)
St Michael's Church of England War Memorial Children's Homes (c. 1954 - 1970?)
St Michael's Orphanage (1902 - c. 1960)
St Patrick's Home (1976 - 1984)
St Saviour's Children's Home (1929 - 1982)
St Vincent's Boys Home (1891 - 1985)
Stanmore Children's Home (1927 - 1987)
Stonehaven (1929 - 1951)
Sunnylands (1955 - 1997)
Sydney Norland Nurseries (1910 - 1920?)
Tahmoor Children's Home (1941 - 1979)
Thorington (1973 - 1981)
Timaru (1970s - ?)
Trigg Home (1950s - c. 1998)
Troup (1933 - 1977)
Waitara Foundling Home (1898 - 1927)
War Memorial Home (1922 - 1982)
Warangesda Dormitory (1893 - 1912)
Waverley Cottage, Mittagong (1940s)
Weroona Home (1970? - 1985?)
Werrington Park (1954 - ?)
William Thompson Masonic School (c. 1924 - 1972)
Winbin (1954 - 1990s)
Windsor Farm Home for Boys (1920s - 1940s)
Woodlands (1944 - 1981)
Yarra Bay House (c. 1917 - 1985)
Yasmar Shelter (1946 - 1994)
Church
Church is a general term which may be applied to any number of (usually Christian) religious groups. The phrase 'the church' usually refers to the official opinion, policy or practice of a particular denomination.
Anglican Church of Australia (1981 - )
Church of England (1788 - 1981)
Presbyterian Church of Australia (1803 - )
Uniting Church in Australia (1977 - )
Wesleyan Methodist Church of New South Wales (1912 - )
Church Agency
Church agency refers to a service organisation which is associated with a specific Church. Some were operated by religious orders, especially within the Catholic Church, and others were operated by lay people.
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd (1891 - )
Anglican Home Mission Society (1857 - 1997)
Anglicare Child and Family Services (1997 - 2008)
Anglicare New South Wales (1997 - )
Baptist Community Services (1986 - )
Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (1940s - 1967)
CatholicCare (2011 - )
CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services (2011 - )
Centacare Adoption Services (1990 - 2011)
Centacare Catholic Community Services Sydney (1967 - 2011)
Centacare Newcastle (1965 - 2011)
Centacare, Broken Bay (1988 - )
Central Methodist Mission, Sydney (1885 - 1977)
Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship ( - 1977)
Milleewa Home for Boys (1919 - 1966)
Presbyterian Social Services Child and Family Program (1988 - )
St Vincent de Paul Society (1881 - ), New South Wales
Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility (1977 - )
Wesley Mission, Sydney (1977 - )
Church Worker
A Church Worker is a person who works for a Church Agency or religious order.
Jones, Shirley, Anglican, Church Worker and Matron
City Mission
City Mission refers to the missions run by various Christian denominations in urban and suburban settings. In the nineteenth century, working class communities in the inner city were seen as 'dark' and 'foreign', and thus an appropriate field for mission. The care of children and unmarried mothers was an important area of activity for these missions. The first half of the twentieth century saw an expansion of denominationally based mission activity, with many inner-suburban churches reconstituting themselves as mission districts. In the postwar period, missions took on a more secular role, and were important providers of child welfare services.
Central Methodist Mission, Sydney (1885 - 1977)
City Mission
Mission Australia (1996 - )
Presbyterian Metropolitan Mission (1900 - 1973?)
Sydney Rescue Work Society (1890 - c. 2000)
Wesley Mission, Sydney (1977 - )
Community Service Organisation
Community Service Organisations are privately run groups, often with a religious affiliation, which provide services to the community, including services to support families and out-of-home 'care' programmes. Although they are private organisations, they may receive some funding from government to provide particular services. In New South Wales, Community Service Organisations tend to refer to themselves as Non-Government Organisations (NGOs).
Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Care State Secretariat (NSW) Inc
Australian Red Cross (1914 - )
Barnardos Australia (c. 1995 - )
Commonwealth Street Mission (1910s - 1970s)
Communicare Sydney (c. 2000 - 2011)
Cowra ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - 2008?)
Dr Barnardo's Homes (Australia Branch) (1883 - 1966)
Dr Barnardos in Australia (1966 - 1995)
Eleanor MacKinnon Junior Red Cross Home (1945? - 1980?)
Glen Mervyn Junior Red Cross Home (1940? - 1980?)
Great Lakes/Manning ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Hunter ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1984 - )
Integricare (2011 - )
Legacy (1925 - )
New South Wales Aboriginal Children's Services (1975 - )
New South Wales Baptist Homes Trust (1944 - 1986)
Rosemount (1976 - 1981)
The Salvation Army (1882 - )
Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children (1887 - )
St Marys ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Sydney City Mission (1862 - 1996)
Sydney Rescue Work Society (1890 - c. 2000)
Tresillian Mothercraft Homes (1918 - ), Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies
UnitingCare Burnside (2000 - )
Wagga Wagga ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Convalescent Home
A Convalescent Home was a place children and adults were sent to recover from illnesses.
Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)
Corelli (1919 - ?)
Gunning House (1951 - c. 1982)
Royal Far West (1924 - )
Cottage Care
Cottage care was a model of institutional 'care' which began in the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth century. Along with 'boarding out', cottage home accommodation was seen as an alternative to large scale dormitory-style accommodation (although cottage homes could house up to 40 children).
Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys (1906 - 1947)
Raymond Terrace Home (1913 - 1930?)
Renwick (1976 - 1994)
Cottage Home
Cottage homes, or family cottages, institutions which provided residential 'care' for children under the cottage care model.
Bailey Cottage (1969 - 1980?)
Elsie Cook Cottage (c. 1969 - 1977?)
Heighway House Project (1960 - 1977?)
Lawson Cottage (1927 - 1930)
Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
St Michael's Family Centre (1960s - )
St Saviour's Cottage Home (1982 - 1986)