The Sturt Assessment Unit was a new purpose-built facility which replaced the Sturt Community Unit at Sturt in 1995. Run by the Department for Family and Community Services and its successors, it was built on the same site at 318-320 Diagonal Road. The Sturt Assessment Unit provided short term accommodation for State children. Units usually accommodated up to eight children.
During the 1990s, because of a lack of foster care or residential care placements, children as young as eight were often placed in the same units as young people in their upper teens.
The Sturt Assessment Unit was operating in 2008.
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