Methodist Babies’ Home
Methodist Babies’ Home
12 Copelen Street
South Yarra
VIC
Australia
Provider: Uniting Church of Australia
Year Opened: 1929
Year Closed: 1975
The Methodist Babies’ Home was established to care for neglected babies and to provide for their adoption into Christian families. By the 1950’s physical neglect was less common but single mothers were increasingly admitted with consent for adoption, while babies whose families were in crisis were accepted on a temporary basis.
In 1959 the Methodist Babies’ Home merged with the Boards of the Methodist Homes for Children to form the Methodist Department of Childcare, which subsequently merged with the Presbyterian Church’s Department of Social Services to carry out the placement of babies and children.
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Related Australian Orphanage Museum items:
Site plan of Methodist Babies Home in South Yarra VIC, 1929
Brown cardboard sign with black writing ‘Babies in Arms will not be admitted to the Wards’
Receipt for donation of 1.66 pounds to the Methodist Babies’ Home, dated 24.3.1939
Cardboard sign ‘Methodist Babies Home‘
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