Some records are held at Presbyterian Support East Coast. Some records are held at Archives NZ - contact the controlling agency Oranga Tamariki to access restricted records.
Registered 23/7/1947
Gender and age: Mixed
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: Presbyterian Social Services (Hawkes Bay) (now Presbyterian Support East Coast). Third-party provider to State, faith-based.
Opened by the Presbyterian Social Service Association of Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay in 1947. See https://www.eit.ac.nz/2012/11/an-insight-into-growing-up-in-hawkes-bay-childrens-homes/
Book: Morris Matthews, Kay. (2013). Who Cared? Childhoods within Hawke’s Bay Children’s Homes and Orphanages 1892-1988. (EIT, Hawke's Bay). Includes accounts from people who grew up in Hillsbrook - press release about the book's release from 2012 here: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1211/S00499/insight-into-growing-up-in-hawkes-bay-childrens-homes.htm
Find out how to request Archives New Zealand records. Hillsbrook Children’s Home 1950-1965 [ABNT 20404 W5517/4 pt. 1 & pt 2]
'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
Information provided by Presbyterian Support East Coast to the Crown Response Unit on 13 September 2024
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