Crecy Group Home was opened at Eastwood (also known as Marsfield) in 1969. It was run by the Church of England (Anglican) Diocese of Sydney as a children’s home. The first children to live at Crecy were transferred there from the Anglican Killara Composite Group Home at Carlingford. Crecy closed in December 1978.
Tress Manning Temporary Care was situated at Carlingford and was a temporary care programme for children. It was run by the Church of England Homes from around 1970 until around 1990.
Kingsleigh Group Home was established by Church of England Homes at Blacktown in 1978, at a time when the Anglican Home Mission Society was focusing its welfare programs in the Western Sydney area. It was a temporary accommodation service, providing crisis care for up to seven children. In July 2000, Kingsleigh Group Home changed its…
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…
Orana Group Home was opened in 1970 at Wahroonga. It was run by the Church of England Homes as a home for children. It closed in February 1977.
Havilah Little Children’s Home was established in a house called Havilah in Hinemoa Road, Normanhurst (also referred to as Wahroona) in 1918 by the Church of England Diocese of Sydney. It was a home for infant children aged under six years. Havilah Little Children’s Home was established by the Homes and Hostels Committee for Children,…
The Church of England Girls’ Home was opened by the Church of England Homes in Carlingford in 1928. It was located in the same buildings, Minden and No. 2 Home (which was renamed the Tress-Manning Home in 1929), that had previously operated as the Church of England Boys’ Home. It was a Home for girls…
The Church of England Boys’ Home was for boys aged 3 to 18 years. It was established by Church of England Homes in 1918 in a rented house in Cronulla, before moving in 1920 to Carlingford occupying the building ‘Minden’ at 216 Pennant Hills Road, the site that had previously housed the Carlingford Children’s Home….
Warangesda Dormitory was established on an Aborigines Protection Association station at Warangesda, near Darlington Point, in 1893. It trained Aboriginal girls for domestic service and served as a welfare depot for younger children from other reserves and stations. In 1897 the Aborigines Protection Board took over managing Warangesda Mission and the Dormitory. Girls from Warangesda…
Glendonald School for Deaf Children in Kew was run by the Victorian Department of Education. It provided education and some residential services for deaf children. The school was located in Marshall Avenue and the hostel was nearby in Belmont Avenue, Kew. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, ‘Deaf children whose families lived…
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