Struan Farm School was established by the government in 1946 at Naracoorte, South Australia as a farm training school for boys over school age. Initially eight boys from the Edwardstown Industrial School and the Boys’ Reformatory Magill were transferred to the school. Although able to accommodate 30 boys, in the 1950s and 60s it averaged…
The South Australian Youth Training Centre, SAYTC, was the new name given to McNally Training Centre in 1979. It operated in Magill as a government secure care facility for up to 90 youths aged between the ages of 15 and 18. In 1993, the name of the centre changed to the Magill Training Centre. In…
The South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, SAYRAC, was the new name given to Vaughan House in 1979. Located in Enfield, this government-run Centre provided secure care and assessment for boys and girls aged 10 to 18. It also accommodated children who had not committed offences. SAYRAC closed in 1993 when the Cavan Training…
Seaforth Convalescent Home was opened by the government at Somerton Park in 1921 as a convalescent home for children. Many came from the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. From 1928 Seaforth was a receiving Home for girls and young boys while older boys were sent to Edwardstown Industrial School. In the mid 1940s the Home accommodated 60…
Redruth Girls’ Reformatory was established by the government in 1897 in the former Redruth Gaol outside Burra. When the Girls’ Reformatory, Edwardstown closed, Protestant girls were sent to Redruth and Catholic girls to the Catholic Girls’ Reformatory, Kapunda. In 1909 girls from Kapunda were also moved to Redruth. In 1922 the government closed the Redruth…
The McNally Training Centre opened at Magill in 1967 in new buildings on the site of the Boys’ Reformatory, Magill. Run by the government, it provided secure care for boys aged 15 to 18 sentenced by the Juvenile Court for committing offences. Younger boys were sent to Brookway Park. In the 1970s McNally also took…
The Magill Industrial School opened in 1869 at Magill as a government Receiving Home for State children who had been housed at the Grace Darling Hotel, Brighton. The Girls’ Reformatory, Magill shared the site from 1881 to 1891 as did the Boys’ Reformatory, Magill from 1869 to 1880. In 1898 the Industrial School moved to…
Lochiel Park Boys’ Training Centre at Campbelltown opened in 1958. It was the first government institution to provide accommodation and training for boys with mild intellectual disabilities. Some children requiring longer term care were sent to Seaforth Home, and later the Strathmont Centre and Ru Rua Nursing Home. From the 1970s Lochiel Park also provided…
Ilfracombe Boys Reformatory opened in Burnside in 1869. Run by the government it took in a number of boys convicted of offences who had been accommodated in the Grace Darling Hotel, Brighton. Other boys were sent to the Boys Reformatory, Magill. Ilfracombe closed in 1880 when the boys from both reformatories were moved to the…
The Brighton Industrial School was situated in the Grace Darling Hotel, in Brighton. It was used by the government from 1867 to 1869 as accommodation for children from the Destitute Asylum who were previously in temporary accommodation in the Exhibition Building on North Terrace, Adelaide. Illness and overcrowding at the Hotel led children to be…
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