Youth Residential Centre is a term from the Victorian Children and Young Persons Act 1989. It described an institution for the detention of offenders under the age of 15. Young people aged 15 or over were detained in a Youth Training Centre. The term also appeared in the Children Youth and Families Act 2005, which…
Youth Justice Centre is a term from the Victorian Children Youth and Families Act 2005 to describe a residential institution where a young person (aged between 15 and 21 years) found guilty of an offence can be ordered to be detained. Previously, such institutions were known as Youth Training Centres. Click here to see the…
The term Youth Welfare Service refers to an organisation providing a range of support services to young people, particularly teenagers, sometimes including short term hostel placements and life skills training. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Youth Training Centre is a term adopted from the 1950s onwards in place of ‘reformatory’ or ‘training institution’ to describe residential institutions designed for children and young people considered to require stronger discipline that those directed to other forms of ‘care’. In some cases, children placed in Youth Training Centres were on remand, or had…
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