About APCare - All Parental Care Australia Pty Ltd

Company Background

In the mid 1950's, Marion Edwards founded 'Eastern Suburbs Babysitting Services'. This was in response to the societal changes wrought by World War II which resulted in many women entering the workforce and generally playing a more active role in society, necessitating the provision of child care services they could trust to look after their children.

When the current CEO, Shirley Meredith, took over the ownership and operation of the company in 1973, she started to bring her vision for a broad-based community care company to life. The company changed it's name to All Sydney Babysitting Services and on the basis of its fine reputation established in Sydney's eastern suburbs, started to offer baby-sitting, nannying and general domestic help services to families across Sydney metropolitan south.

In 1991, responding to burgeoning demand, the company started providing home based support services and complex nursing care to people with disabilities in both the Sydney and Illawarra Regions. A second company All Parental Care was launched to cater for the specific support needs of people with disabilities. In 1995, based on its growing home-based complex care and nursing service portfolio, Shirley steered the company to win a nursing based contract with the Pharmacy Guild of NSW whereby nurses were provided to run baby and specific health issue clinics in pharmacies throughout the Sydney metropolitan area. This prompted the establishment of the third company in the umbrella group which is known as APC Medical Services.

In 1997, All Parental Care Australia was established as a parent company to incorporate the 3 companies - All Parental Care, All Sydney Babysitting Services and APC Medical Services - and has been trading as APCare ever since. Maintaining and growing its reputation, APCare has since become a registered contractor under a number of Commonwealth and State Government home based care programs across South Eastern Sydney, Greater South Western Sydney and across the entire Illawarra Region (north and south).

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