Pleasant Avenue Cottage was the new name given to the Glandore Family Home in 1975. Run by the government it was situated on the ground of the former Glandore Boys’ Home in Glandore. The Cottage generally accommodated six State children. Pleasant Avenue Cottage closed in 1979. Pleasant Avenue Cottage was the new name given to…
The Gilles Plains Assessment Unit replaced the Gilles Plains Community Unit in 1992. Run by the government, the Assessment Unit was built at the same Gilles Plains address. It provided short-term emergency care for up to eight children between the ages of eight to upper teens. The Gilles Plains Assessment Unit was still operating in…
Fuller Street Cottage was one of the Cottage Homes that were established at Kennion House at Walkerville in the mid to late 1970s. The others included Garden Cottage and Smith Street Cottage. Each functioned as a separate group home. Run by the Anglican Church the Fuller Street Cottage was previously the house of the deputy…
The government-run Adelaide Youth Training Centre opened at Cavan in 2012. It replaced the Magill Training Centre and Cavan Training Centre as a secure institution for young offenders. The Centre focuses on education and rehabilitation for young men and women aged between 10 and 18 who are on remand and detention warrants. The Centre accommodates…
Wentworth House was opened by the Legacy Club of Adelaide at Woodville in 1945. It provided accommodation for the children of deceased servicemen who were attending school and apprenticeships in the city. In 1946 it could accommodate 13 children and 2 staff. A second Legacy Hostel, known as Waverley House, opened in Adelaide in 1946….
The Toorak Gardens Boys’ Hostel opened in 1967 at Toorak Gardens. Run by the same independent Board of Management as the Morialta Protestant Children’s Home, it provided accommodation for boys who had left the Children’s Home and were studying or working. The Hostel, along with the Children’s Home was renamed Morialta Children’s Homes Incorporated in…
Morialta Children’s Homes Incorporated was the new name given to the Morialta Protestant Children’s Home from 1972. The name referred to both the Children’s Home for younger children at Norton Summit and the Toorak Gardens Boys’ Hostel for older boys who were studying or working. Both were run by the same independent Board of Management….
The Junior Red Cross Home opened at Glenelg in 1959. Run by the Red Cross it operated as a convalescent Home for up to 35 children recuperating from illness or in need of emergency accommodation. It took in children from the former Lady Hore-Ruthven Junior Red Cross Home and the Lady Norrie Junior Red Cross…
The Lady Norrie Junior Red Cross Children’s Home opened at Grange in 1947 as a convalescent Home for children aged between 18 months and 7 years. Run by the Red Cross, it accommodated up to 30 children. The Home closed in 1959 when all of the Junior Red Cross Homes were brought together on one…
The Lady Hore-Ruthven Junior Red Cross Home opened in 1946 at Henley Beach. Run by the Red Cross the Home comprised new premises in Henley Beach and the original Junior Red Cross Home. The two buildings operated as a convalescent Home for up to 50 children. The Lady Hore-Ruthven Home closed in 1959 and children…
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