In August 1967 the Barrington Street Family Home opened as an adjunct to South Island Methodist Children’s Home, Harewood Road, Christchurch.
Gender: Mixed
Age groups:
Capacity:
Operational period: Registered around 1967
Controlling organisation:
Third-party provider to State, faith-based.
Barrington Street Home Masters and Matrons:
Printed minutes of Methodist Conference. These are a serial and can be found in most university collections and there is a set held in the Methodist Church of New Zealand Archives.
Yearly reports were presented to Conference and detail general activities within the Home. Individuals are not mentioned by name, other than some staff. 1900-2023 which include reports from the Children's Homes have been digitised and are available on the Methodist Church website: https://www.methodist.org.nz/whakapapa/archives/methodist-history/
Some minute books, photographs and newspaper cuttings have been digitised and are available: https://www.methodist.org.nz/whakapapa/archives/methodist-history/methodist-childrens-homes/
'Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/40422924
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
Methodist Church of New Zealand Archives. Fact Sheet: Methodist Children's Homes in New Zealand (2021)
Information provided by the Methodist Church Archives NZ to the Crown Response Unit on 22 May 2024
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