Pineview was the name given to the long stay Pineview Program for teenage girls within the government-run Nyandi Maximum Security unit in Bentley. A description of the Pineview program was given in the Department for Community Welfare’s annual report in 1984 (quoted in Signposts 2004, p.427): ‘the most difficult offenders referred to Nyandi take part…
Perth Girls’ Orphanage was established as the ‘Protestant Orphanage’ in 1868 with 8 children, including one boy. It operated in a building near the Causeway, for children of all denominations aged 2-14 years. Children who were not orphans were also admitted. The Home was run by the The Committee until 1889, the Orphanages’ Committee until…
The Parkerville Children’s Home continued the Waifs’ Home, Parkerville from 1909. It was run by the Community of the Sisters of the Church from 1909 to 1925 and from 1925 to 2005 by the Parkerville Children’s Home Incorporated. Over time, Parkerville developed a range of youth care and family services, including non-residential programs. In 2005…
The Pallottine Mission, Tardun, run by The Pallottines, opened a boarding school in 1948, before establishing a hostel in 1960 to accommodate boys and girls in dormitories who went to school at the mission. In the 1960s the hostel was completely rebuilt to provide cottage-style care with house parents. In 1995, the Pallottine Mission, Tardun…
The Pallottine Mission Centre was opened in May 1955 by The Pallottines in Riverton, later known as Rossmoyne. The Centre opened as a hostel for Aboriginal boys who were attending secondary schools, technical schools or working as apprentices in the metropolitan area. A Girls’ Hostel was opened in 1961 for girls to attend secondary schools…
The Albany Boys’ Hostel, also known as the Pallottine Boys’ Hostel, was an Aboriginal education and employment hostel that admitted male Aboriginal teenagers from south western Australia, from approximately 1970. It was intended to house young adolescents to further their education and training, and enable them to obtain suitable employment in the south west. There…
The Padbury Boys’ Farm School was run by the Anglican Orphanages Committee as part of Swan Homes from 1946 to 1955, on land owned by the Anglican church in Stoneville. Boys were sent there to gain training and experience in farm work. The Padbury Boys’ Farm School at Stoneville was part of the Swan Homes…
Oolanyah Hostel, in Marble Bar, was established before 1971 as a government-run Aboriginal education and employment hostel for school-age children who came from outstations and communities to Marble Bar to go to school. At first, Oolanyah was for primary school students, but by 1987 only high school students were admitted. Oolanyah closed around 1993. Government…
Oceanview, in Cottesloe (or Mosman Park), was run from 1970-1972 by the Pallottines (Society of the Catholic Apostolates) as a hostel for up to 14 male Aboriginal teenagers who were in apprenticeships. From 1972, Oceanview (which was also known as the Beach Street Hostel, and the Working Youths Hostel – Cottesloe) became a government-run hostel…
Nyandi was established by the Child Welfare Department in Bentley in 1970 as a maximum security female youth detention centre for up to 30 adolescent girls on a campus that included a 10-bed residential unit (Gwyn-lea). From 1986, Nyandi also admitted boys aged 12-14 years, and from 1989 young people on remand were admitted. In…
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