Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd is the modern name of the Church of England Deaconess Institution, a women’s religious order that ran children’s homes in Sydney. Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd holds records relating to the Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School, in Balmain, Ashfield and Annandale; Lisgar Training Service for Domestic Servants; Lisgar Children’s Home,…
The Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School was a children’s home and training home for girls that was run by the Church of England Deaconess Institution. It operated in Ashfield (1893-1894), and on various site in Balmain (1895-1914). From 1900 The Deaconess Children’s Home was co-located with Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants on…
Centacare Catholic Community Services Sydney was the welfare arm of the Catholic Church until 2011, when it changed its name to CatholicCare. It had previously been known as the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau. In the 1960s the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau had changed the nature of Catholic institutions by centralising admissions and requiring parents to…
Centacare Adoption Services was name of the organisation created when Centacare Catholic Community Care took over the running of Catholic Adoption Services in 1993. It dealt with adoptions in the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. This organisation is now known as CatholicCare Adoption Services. Please refer to CatholicCare Adoption Services for further information.
The Hay Institution for Girls was opened in the old Hay Gaol in 1961. It was an annexe of Parramatta Girls Training School, and held 12 girls aged 15 to 18 who had committed offences, including rioting to protest their treatment, while they were in Parramatta. They were officially sent to Hay for three month…
The Department of Family and Community Services was the new name chosen by the New South Wales Government for the Department of Youth and Community Services in 1991. In 1991 the Department’s name was changed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Carpentarian Reformatory was established by the Department of Charitable Institutions at Brush Farm, a historic property in Eastwood, in 1894. It was located in an area sometimes referred to as Dundas Heights, so is often described as being in Dundas. In 1897, the management of the Reformatory was taken over by the State Children’s…
The Children’s Court of New South Wales was established in 1905, with the passing of the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act. Children’s Courts were proclaimed at Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta, Burwood and Broken Hill. A Children’s Court is a hearing, intended to ensure children receive specialist support and they are sheltered from adult courts. While…
Kinchela Training Home, near Kempsey, was built in 1923 by the Aborigines’ Protection Board. It was intended to offer training in farm labouring to older boys who had been removed from their families under the Protection Board’s policies of apprenticing Aboriginal youths. Later it became a home for school-aged boys who had been removed from…
The Department of Public Instruction controlled reformatories, industrial schools and training vessels from 1881, until the responsibility for such institutions were transferred to the Child Welfare Department in 1923. The Public Instruction Department was created by the Public Instruction Act 1880. This Act removed government funding from religious schools and made it compulsory for all…
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