Bay Cottage, at Manly West, was run by the Open Brethren (Council of Silky Oaks Children’s Haven). It opened in 1970 and closed January 1998.
Durack Cottage, at Durack, was run by the Open Brethren (Council of Silky Oaks Children’s Haven). It opened prior to December 1981 and closed in 1993.
Farm Cottage, at Manly West, was run by the Open Brethren (Council of Silky Oaks Children’s Haven). It opened in 1965 and funding ceased in 1989.
Balmoral Cottage, at Hawthorne, was run by the Open Brethren and the Silky Oaks Children’s Haven Council. It opened in 1977 and closed in 1993.
The Silky Oaks Haven for Children, in Manly West, was operated by the Open Brethren and the Council of Silky Oaks Children’s Haven. It was established at Toowong in 1940 and moved to Manly in 1946, and was licensed as a foster home. The first State children were admitted to Silky Oaks in April 1950….
St Anthony’s and St Joseph’s Centre of Care was the name of the new organisation created with the amalgamation of St Anthony’s Home Croydon and St Joseph’s Home for Children, Croydon, in around 1980. It was run by the Sisters of St Joseph and provided a range of services to children, young people and families….
Birralee was a children’s home that was opened in Wagga Wagga on 27 March 1971 by the Church of England Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. It provided cottage care for seven children. In 1976, after changes to NSW Government funding of out-of-home care, the Diocese closed the home. The decision to close Birralee was taken…
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,…
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…
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…
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