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Family services

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Sydney Day Nursery Association

Hyde Park Family Centre

Sydney Rescue Work Society

Tresillian Family Day Care Centres

Leach, Claudia

Hyde Park Family Centre 1991

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Family services

Sydney Day Nursery Association

The Sydney Day Nursery Association was established in Woolloomooloo in 1905 as a child care service for infant children of working class mothers. It extended its services to preschool-aged children in 1937, when it changed its name to the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association. In 1999 it became SDN Children's Services.

Hyde Park Family Centre

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Facility built in Hyde Park in 1955 in Park Street near the corner of Elizabeth Street to provide facilities for women visiting the city such as toilets and child care. Demolished in 2000.

Sydney Rescue Work Society

Organisation founded in 1890 to provide practical care and support to destitute children and families.

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Tresillian Family Day Care Centres

Organisation formed to co-ordinate childhood and maternal services in response to statistics during World War I that showed 63,000 Australian servicemen had lost their lives fighting, whilst 70,000 children under 5 had died through poverty, lack of hygiene and disease in the same period.

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Leach, Claudia

Alderman and community leader who worked to establish the Community Aid program in Lane Cove to provide home nursing, child minding and meals to the needy in the community.

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Hyde Park Family Centre 1991

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City of Sydney Archives

[006\006374; NSCA CRS 904/1204]