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Minda Juvenile Justice Centre

Minda Juvenile Justice Centre, in Lidcombe, replaced the Minda Remand Centre in 1991, when the Department of Juvenile Justice was created and assumed control of remand centres, shelters and juvenile detention centres from the Department of Family and Community Services. Minda housed around 60 boys at one time. Their average age was 15. Minda closed…

Henson Cottage

Henson Cottage was a family group home that was established at Orange by the United Protestant Association in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the late 1990s.

Adelaide Walker Family Group Home

The Adelaide Walker Family Group Home was opened by the United Protestant Association at Orange in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the 1990s.

Hillview Cottage

Hillview Cottage was a family group home established in Gardiner Road, Orange by the United Protestant Association in 1983. It closed in 1996 and was replaced by a larger family group home in James Cook Crescent.

Family Group Home, Lismore United Protestant Association

The Family Group Home, Lismore United Protestant Association, was set up by the United Protestant Association’s Far North Coast District Council in Murwillumbah in 1984. It closed in the early 1990s.

Phillips Cottage

Phillips Cottage was a foster home set up by the United Protestant Association at Maitland. The UPA had intended to open a family group home at Maitland, but it was not required. It opened as Special Projects of the UPA then became a foster home for a family of three children and was named Phillips…

FRYAR Cottage

FRYAR Cottage is a family group home set up by the United Protestant Association in 1993 at Thornton, near Maitland. Thornton was funded by the Fryars, a brother and sister who had been benefactors to Woodlands and Ellimatta Homes.

Ellimeek

Ellimeek was established by the United Protestant Association in 1945, next to Ellimatta at East Maitland. Originally used as flats, it was converted to a girls home. Ellimatta and Ellimeek closed in 1982.

Sydney City Mission photographs and a drawing, ca. 1892-1986

The archival collection Sydney City Mission photographs and a drawing includes 130 photographs, a water colour drawing, 65 lantern slides and 13 slides that depict Sydney City Mission activities, including children’s homes. These drawings, photographs and pictures are held by the State Library of New South Wales. Access Conditions People wishing to access these records…

Fairbridge Society Inc.

The Fairbridge Society developed from the Child Emigration Society, established in 1909 by Kingsley Fairbridge. Its purpose was to send British child migrants to different parts of the Empire where they would learn farming at special farm schools. The Fairbridge Society ran Pinjarra in Western Australia from 1913, and sent children to farm schools in…