CREATE Foundation (formerly known as the Australian Association of Young People in Care AAYPIC) was established in 1993 to provide an independent voice for children and young people in out-of-home care. CREATE seeks to connect and empower Australian children and young people in care and, change the care system through activities, programs, training, research and…
The Children’s Cottage Home was established by Sister Kate Clutterbuck in 1933 in Buckland Hill. In that year it housed ten children from the Moore River Native Settlement (1918 – 1951). By August 1934, a new Children’s Cottage Home was opened at Queen’s Park and within a year the children and staff had moved there….
Albany Residential College is a hostel for students attending high school in Albany. It is likely that the hostel was opened around 1974. According to evidence given in the St Andrew’s Hostel inquiry, the Albany Residential College was known as Amity House during the last decades of the twentieth century. Appropriate staffing at the Albany…
The Western Australian State Children Department existed between 1 January 1917 and 22 December 1927. The State Records Office website provides an overview of the State Children Department: Following a change of permanent head, the Public Charities and Children’s Department became one department, the State Children’s Department in 1917, to reflect the greater emphasis placed…
STAY Geraldton began in 1984. STAY means ‘short term accommodation for youth’ and it has provided services for young people aged 13-25 years since that time. STAY is run by a private management committee as a 24-hour service. STAY Geraldton began in 1984 and by 1987 it received funding from the Youth Supported Accommodation Program,…
Wattle Grove Baptist Cottage was run by members of the Wattle Grove Baptist Church during 1958 and 1959. The Child Welfare Department intended to place 12 ‘specially selected’ girls in the Home, and three girls were housed there by March 1959. It is likely that the department did not place any girls there after 1963….
Werribee (also known as Werribee Girls’ Cottage) in Victoria Park was established by the Methodist Homes for Children in Victoria Park in 1962, and run by agencies of the Uniting Church after 1977. It accommodated girls of high school age in a detached house setting on the Jarrah Road boundary of the Mofflyn campus. Girls…
Watson Lodge, in Perth, opened in 1967 as a government-run hostel that provided close supervision for up to 12 teenage girls, all of whom were wards of the State. From 1976, Watson Lodge was used as one of the community-based hostels attached to Nyandi detention centre. Watson Lodge’s residential program closed in 1984. It re-opened…
Shiloh, in Broomehill, south of Katanning, was a farm school for up to 16 boys who were wards of the State, referred by the Child Welfare Department. It was run independently by Mr and Mrs Beeck on their farm, ‘Langwell’. Boys went to school on the property. Shiloh’s aim was to reform ‘delinquent’ boys through…
The Seaforth Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Gosnells (Kelmscott) was established in 1920. Boys from the Salvation Army Homes at Collie were transferred to Seaforth, and lived in different ‘sections’, including a separate facility for boys and young men with intellectual disabilities (1922-1950). Seaforth Boys’ Home closed in 1955 and remaining boys were transferred to either…
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