In 1978, the Department for Community Welfare (Signposts 2004, pp.503-504) outlined what it intended when it was establishing the South Hedland Group Home: 'This facility will accommodate up to eight children on a short term basis and has been designed to duplicate, as nearly as possible, a normal family situation. The Group Home should reduce the need to send children in need of Care and Protection to Perth because of lack of suitable local facilities.' Until this home is established the only other residential care facility for young children in the Pilbara is Yaandina Babies and Children's Centre in Roebourne. Placement of other than local children at Yaandina makes it difficult for parents to maintain regular contact with their children because of the distance they have to travel to see them.'
The South Hedland Group Home had closed by 2000, possibly earlier, and the property was subsequently used by government authorities as the Port Hedland Lifeskills Office and briefly as a residential group home known as Jibson House.
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