Cooinoo Home for Destitute Children was established in 1924 at Burwood then moved to Enfield in 1938. It was administered by a Board connected with St Thomas’ Anglican Parish, Enfield. It housed up to 25 children aged two to 13 years. While it was established as a children’s home it also served as a girls’…
Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care, was a programme for Aboriginal children run by Church of England Homes on behalf of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care was a family group home for 8 children aged between 6 and 14 years old, located in Marrickville and staffed by Aboriginal people. It opened at Harney…
Buckland Group Home was situated at North St Marys and was established by Church of England Homes in 1978. It was run by the Diocese of Sydney as a family group home offering temporary care for children until December 1992. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of its…
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney was founded in 1788, when the Church of England arrived with the First Fleet. The Sydney Diocese ran a number of children’s homes, through various committees including Church of England Children’s Homes and the Home Mission Society, and supported independent committees to run others. Since 1983 the Church of England…
The Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, also known as the Church of England Home Mission Society, the Anglican Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Society, was formed in Sydney in 1857. It was controlled by the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England and its primary object was to help…
Anglicare is the urban mission and community care arm of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Previously, it was the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Anglicare provides a wide range of community services and programs across the Sydney metropolitan and Illawarra regions of New South Wales. Anglicare manages the records of a…
Anglicare Child and Family Services replaced Care Force in 1997. It held and managed the records of a number of Church of England children’s homes in the Sydney Church of England/Anglican Diocese. In 2008 this organisation became known as Anglicare Out-of-Home Care, part of the Anglicare Child Youth and Family Services Department. Anglicare Out-of-Home Care…
The Department of Community Services was a New South Wales government department that was created in 1992 to manage child welfare and other social services. It had formerly been the Department of Health and Community Services. It was responsible for a number of institutions and establishments throughout New South Wales. In addition, the Department cared…
The Department of Health and Community Services was the name given to the Department of Community Services in 2009. The Department of Human Services was a multi-agency department that included the Department of Community Services and the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. In 2011 the name of this Department was changed to the…
Community Services was created in 2009 as a Government agency of the Department of Human Services. In April 2011, the Department of Human Services was renamed the Department of Family and Community Services but the Community Services agency remained the same. Community Services managed child protection services and a range of programs for children and…
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