Cottee Lodge, in Ashfield, was set up by the Wesley Central Mission in around 1986 as a residential service to help homeless youth. In 2014 it appears this service has become an independent living programme, run by Wesley Mission. Cottee Lodge was established in a former convent, run by German nuns, which had 18 rooms…
The Deaf and Dumb Institution, founded in 1860, was renamed the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in 1868. It was a public institution for the education of deaf and blind children and had a residential facility for school-aged children. Initially based at Ormond House (Juniper Hall) in Paddington, the Institution…
The Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children was the new name given to the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and the Blind in 1957, when Queen Elizabeth II conferred the title ‘Royal’ on the Darlington school and residential facility. The Institution moved to North Rocks in 1962 and the old building was acquired by…
The Deaf and Dumb Institution was founded in Sydney in 1860 by Thomas Pattison, a deaf migrant from Scotland, to provide education to deaf children. It started as a private school, with a residential facility, in Liverpool Street, near South Head Road. It then moved to Castlereagh Street and was officially declared a public institution…
The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle represents the Catholic Church in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter and Manning areas. It was formed out of the Sydney Archdiocese in 1847. Since 1965 the Diocese has delivered social welfare programmes and services to care leavers through CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services, which until 2011 was called Centacare Newcastle.
The CatholicCare Diocese of Broken Bay is the new name for Centacare Diocese of Broken Bay. The name change occurred in late 2013. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides social services from Willoughby in northern Sydney up to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides foster care and out-of-home care residential services for the…
The Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay was established in 1986, after a restructure of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. It covers the area from Willoughby in northern Sydney to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. A number of independent Catholic organisations provided residential care within what are now the boundaries of the Diocese.
TheInquiry into Health Services for the Psychiatrically Ill and Developmentally Disabled was chaired by David T Richmond in 1983 and its findings are usually referred to as ‘The Richmond Report’. It changed mental health and disability provision in New South Wales, and influenced other services, including out-of-home care for children. Richmond evaluated mental health services,…
The Department of Charitable Institutions was a New South Wales government agency that was established in 1888. It took over the responsibilities of the Inspector of Public Charities. It administered state hospitals and asylums for the infirm. It had overall responsibility for the State Children’s Relief Branch and the Government Asylums Branch. It oversaw the…
The Metropolitan Hospitals and Charities Department was the name given to the Department of Charitable Institutions in 1911. It had responsibility for state hospitals and asylums for the infirm. It was amalgamated with the Office of the Director-General of Public Health, the forerunner of the Department of Public Health, in 1913.
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