The Newcastle Shelter had capacity for 6 boys and girls, with somewhere between 50 and 100 children on average passing through each year. It accepted children from infancy up to the age of 18. Children typically spent only a short time at the shelter, ranging from a few hours to a few days, however at least two children had lived at the shelter permenantly during its operation. Due to the short period of time children spent at the shelter it had no formal education or recreational programs. It was described in the 1939 Annual Report of the Child Welfare Department as 'merely a place of detention and remand.'
In 1947 the operator of the shelter, Miss King, retired. However, annual reports of the department suggest that the shelter continued in some form (possibly at another location) until 1966, when it was replaced by the Worimi Shelter.
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