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Yarra Bay House Truant School

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

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

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. In 2025, Reiby accommodates a maximum of 55 girls and boys under the age of 15 years, who are on control orders or remanded in custody According to the…

Minda Juvenile Justice Centre

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…

Glenfield Park School

Glenfield Park School is a residential special school opened in 1927 by the Department of Education. It is a boarding school that offers intensive support to students with emotional and behavioural needs.

Parramatta Girls Training School

The Parramatta Girls Training School was the new name given in 1946 to the former Parramatta Girls Training Home. It accommodated around 160 to 200 older girls at a time who had been charged with crimes, or committed by welfare organisations. Although the Annual Reports of the Child Welfare Department claimed it had made positive…

Parramatta Girls Training Home

The Parramatta Girls Training Home was the name given in 1912 to the former Parramatta Girls Industrial School. It accommodated around 160 to 200 older girls at a time. The girls had been charged with crimes, or committed by welfare organisations. In 1946, after a public controversy, its name changed again to the Parramatta Girls…

Farm Home for Boys, Narara

The Farm Home for Boys, Narara, was established by the Child Welfare Department near Gosford. It was an annexe of Gosford Training School. In 1934, boys at the Farm Home for Boys, Narara were transferred back to Gosford Training School. The Farm Home for Boys, Narara, was located 16 kilometres from Gosford at Narara on…

Ormond Regional Youth Centre

Ormond Regional Youth Centre was established at Westleigh (formerly part of Thornleigh) by the Department of Youth and Community Services in 1985. It used the same buildings in Duffy Avenue that had been used by the Ormond Training School and the Ormond School. The Centre accommodated children aged 9 to 15 years who had been…

Ormond School

Ormond School in Westleigh was established by the Department of Youth and Community Services in February 1980. It used the buildings of the former Ormond Training School in Duffy Avenue, Westleigh (formerly part of Thornleigh). It was a co-educational institution with capacity for 60 boys and girls. Ormond School was a secure unit for young…