Also contact the Baptist Union of New Zealand (BUNZ) complaints@baptist.org.nz
Gender and age: Mixed 3-17 years
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: Manurewa Children's Home Board of Management (Baptist). Third-party provider to State, faith-based.
Operational period:
Orphanage opened 1915, registered 10/1/1929, closed for in 1989.
1976: The organisation controlling this home also arranges foster-home placements. The children's home had been closed for residential purposes in October 1989, but Baptist social services continued to operate from the site until the property was put on the market in August 1996.
Books and articles listed as further information on Auckland Council Libraries website:
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Records held in Wellington:
R10371008 - Education - Schools: Manurewa Child Welfare Home 1968-1978
R19241537 to R19241540 Childrens's Homes - Manurewa Children's Home 1950-1987
R20067386 Social Services Committee - Petition of Steven Plester and others, CYPFA home in Manurewa 1997-1999.
Records in Auckland:
R23393239 [Auckland Health Board] - Social welfare - Children boarded at Manurewa Children's Home 1920-1934. Also Ministry of Works files in series 1054 relating to land and buildings.
R23466049 sale of home - 1947
'Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979.
Auckland Council Libraries description of photo of Manurewa Children's Home
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