Child Care in New South Wales in 1890

Abstract

This is the last of three papers outlining some aspects of child care in nineteenth-century New South Wales. The first described government policies in 1870 when the only form of alternative care for children was provided in institutional settings.¹ The second described the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children as an example of a large subsidised organization at a time when the favoured method of providing for dependent children changed to foster care.² This paper will seek to assess the new foster care system during its first ten years of operation.