Schools for Specific Purposes were public schools for children with special needs that were set up by the New South Wales Department of Education. Sometimes they are referred to as Schools for Special Purposes. They operated within a number of state child welfare institutions. Their naming and classification has changed over time, but such schools…
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…
Yarra Bay House was established at Phillip Bay, at La Perouse, as an institution for children defined as handicapped by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1917. It was converted to La Perouse Training School for Girls in 1923.
Yarra Bay House Truant School was established in 1939 in Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay. This building had been the La Perouse Training School for Girls. It was run by the Child Welfare Department as a truant school for boys. It was converted to a boys’ home in the 1950s. In around 1955, Yarra Bay…
Keelong Juvenile Justice Centre was located at Unanderra and run by the Department of Juvenile Justice. It was formerly the Keelong Remand Centre. The name change occurred when the remand centre was transferred from the Department of Family and Community Services to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Some of the boys remained at Keelong during…
Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre, at Airds, near Campbelltown, was opened under the Department of Juvenile Justice in 1991. It had been the Reiby Training School, for girls, but became a centre for males under the age of 16 years, who are on control orders or on remand. According to the Department of Juvenile Justice, Reiby…
In 1983 the Wagga District Council (Riverina District Council) branch of the United Protestant Association closed Gumleigh. The funds from the sale of the property were used to finance two family group homes, one in Heydon Street and one in Grandview Avenue. In 1985 the scheme was phased out and the homes were closed.
Minda Juvenile Justice Centre, in Lidcombe, replaced the Minda Remand Centre in 1991, when the Department of Juvenile Justice was created and assumed control of remand centres, shelters and juvenile detention centres from the Department of Family and Community Services. Minda housed around 60 boys at one time. Their average age was 15. Minda closed…
Henson Cottage was a family group home that was established at Orange by the United Protestant Association in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the late 1990s.
The Adelaide Walker Family Group Home was opened by the United Protestant Association at Orange in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the 1990s.
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