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New South Wales - Organisation
Yarra Bay Boys' Home (1955 - 1985)
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Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay, 7 August 2007, courtesy of J Bar, Wikimedia Commons.
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- From
- c. 1955
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- 1985
- Categories
- Home, Children's Home, Government-run
- Alternative Names
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Yarra Bay Boys' Home, also known as Yarra Bay House, was established at Phillip Bay (La Perouse) in the mid-1950s by the Child Welfare Department. Previously, the site had housed the Yarra Bay Truant School. Yarra Bay Boys' Home was
used as a receiving home as well as a more permanent children's home. By the 1960s it held 40 primary school age boys. Yarra Bay Boys' Home closed in 1985.
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A 1966 publication of
the Child Welfare Department described the boys at Yarra Bay House as
being 'mostly dull or educationally retarded', although 'many would be
suitable for foster home placement if foster homes were available.'
There was an internal school at Yarra Bay House. In 1977 the Yarra Bay House was listed in the Annual Report of the Department of Youth and Community Services as being 'prepared to
provide special resocialization programmes for intellectually
handicapped people who are under the Minister's guardianship'.
Locations
- c. 1955 - 1985
- Location - Yarra Bay Boys' Home was situated at Yarra Point, Phillip Bay (La Perouse)
- Collection Title
- Records relating to State Wards, New South Wales (1881 - )
- Date Range
- 1881 -
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
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Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay
