The Metropolitan Girls’ Shelter, Glebe was located next to Bidura in a separate building that was entered from Avon Street. It was run by the Child Welfare Department as a shelter for girls awaiting hearings in the Metropolitan Children’s Court. It opened some time between 1923 and 1936 and closed in 1978. While located at…
Corelli Babies’ Home was opened around 1945 in Marrickville. It was a Child Welfare Department nursing home for around 20 toddlers. It was situated in a house called Corelli. Previously, it had been a Child Welfare Department home for unmarried mothers, (the Corelli Women’s Hospital). Around 1970 Corelli was converted to a hostel for older…
Corelli, in Marrickville, was a hostel for six male state wards aged from about 14 to 18. Before this, the building was a babies’ home (also known as Corelli, which was the name of the house). Corelli was established by the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare. Corelli closed in 1991. Corelli was located…
Berida Junior Red Cross Home was established by the Junior Red Cross in Bowral in 1950. The house had previously been a Red Cross convalescent home for servicewomen and servicemen. Berida was a school for special purposes that provided temporary care to school-aged girls whose families were experiencing illness, childbirth or crisis. From 1972 until…
Yarra Bay Boys’ Home, also known as Yarra Bay House, was established at Phillip Bay (La Perouse) in the mid-1950s by the Child Welfare Department. Previously, the site had housed the Yarra Bay Truant School. Yarra Bay Boys’ Home was used as a receiving home as well as a more permanent children’s home. By the…
Yarra Bay House was established at Phillip Bay, at La Perouse, as an institution for children defined as handicapped by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1917. It was converted to La Perouse Training School for Girls in 1923.
Yarra Bay House Truant School was established in 1939 in Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay. This building had been the La Perouse Training School for Girls. It was run by the Child Welfare Department as a truant school for boys. It was converted to a boys’ home in the 1950s. In around 1955, Yarra Bay…
Keelong Juvenile Justice Centre was located at Unanderra and run by the Department of Juvenile Justice. It was formerly the Keelong Remand Centre. The name change occurred when the remand centre was transferred from the Department of Family and Community Services to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Some of the boys remained at Keelong during…
Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre, at Airds, near Campbelltown, was opened under the Department of Juvenile Justice in 1991. It had been the Reiby Training School, for girls, but became a centre for males under the age of 16 years, who are on control orders or on remand. According to the Department of Juvenile Justice, Reiby…
In 1983 the Wagga District Council (Riverina District Council) branch of the United Protestant Association closed Gumleigh. The funds from the sale of the property were used to finance two family group homes, one in Heydon Street and one in Grandview Avenue. In 1985 the scheme was phased out and the homes were closed.
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