The Public Interest Advocacy Centre suggest that the creation of the Tamworth Institution for Boys may not have met the criteria of the 1939 Child Welfare Act, meaning the detention of boys may have been illegal.
Last updated: 4 August 2023
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/nsw/bib/NP0000113.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License