Glandore Community Unit

The Glandore Community Unit was the new name given to the Southern Region Group Home in Glandore in 1990. Run by the government, it provided longer term accommodation for up to eight children from the age of eight to upper teens who were deemed to be able to live in the community. The Glandore Community Unit closed in 1994.

The Glandore Community Unit was the new name given to the Southern Region Group Home at 58 Pleasant Avenue, Glandore in 1990. Run by the Department for Family and Community Services, it provided longer term accommodation for up to eight children from eight to upper teens who were deemed to be able to live in the community.

A community unit was a smaller group residential care unit. This term was used from the 1970s for longer term small group care. These units were to provide care and support for a range of children in State ‘care’ including young people on remand or children considered to be at risk. Some units catered specifically for children with severe behavioural problems. Community units also assisted in the process of transitioning young people towards independent living. In the late 1970s and early 1980s some government cottages were renamed Admission or Community units.

After the Department for Community Welfare became the Department for Family and Community Services in 1990, residential care units were variously closed, moved, rebuilt or renamed for the suburb they were located in rather than the region.

The Glandore Community Unit closed in 1994.