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New South Wales - Organisation
St Andrew's Home (1960 - 1986)
- From
- c. 1960
- To
- 1986
- Categories
- Protestant, Children's Home, Home, Uniting Church
St Andrew's Home was a boys' home set up by the Presbyterian Social Services Department in the 1960s. Originally located at Manly, it was transferred to a 400 acre farm property at Leppington, on the Hume Highway south of Liverpool. It catered for twenty boys aged ten to fifteen years. In 1977 this home came under the supervision of Burnside Homes for Children. In 1986 St Andrews' was closed.
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Residents of St Andrew's Home were generally referred following an appearance before the Children's Court on a care and protection application or in respect of some offence. Admissions followed assessment by a professional social worker, and a feature of the program was its strong community links, with residents attending local schools and participating in community activities.
Following the inauguration of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, the Home came under the auspice of the Uniting Church, together with Burnside Homes, with St Andrew's being administered under the Burnside program.
The records for St Andrew's Leppington are held by Burnside.
Locations
- 1972 - 1986
- Location - St Andrew's Home was situated at Leppington
- Collection Title
- Records held by Burnside Archives (1911 - )
- Date Range
- 1911 -
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Uniting Burnside Museum:
Postal Address: PO Box 7137 Silverwater, NSW 2128
Phone: 1800 864 846
Email: ask@uniting.org
Website: https://www.uniting.org/services/family-services/facility/uniting-burnside-museum-north-parramatta
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St Andrew's Boys' Home
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