The Aboriginal Youth Support Service was a state-run youth welfare service, established in around 1973-74 in Brunswick.
The Melbourne Youth Justice Centre is a high security centre commissioned by the state government in 1993. It is located in the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct, and replaced the Turana Youth Training Centre. The Justice Centre is a custodial facility for males aged 15 to approximately 18, who have been sentenced to a Youth Justice…
The Nunawading Youth Residential Centre was established in 1991, on the former site of Winlaton. It accommodated young people from ten and fourteen years who had been sentenced to detention. It also provided youth training centre programs. According to the Finding Records website, Nunawading Youth Residential Centre was a large complex with different sections, including:…
The Victorian Children’s Welfare Department began its Family Group Home Program in 1956. At first, each of the Department’s group homes accommodated eight children, under the care of a cottage mother (and often a cottage father too). By 1974 there were 40 Departmental homes housing 209 children in the inner and outer suburbs of Melbourne…
The Lady Dugan Children’s Home was established by the Social Welfare Department in 1970. It mostly housed children aged between two and five years, and their school age siblings. It had capacity for 34 children. The Home ceased to operate in April 1976, and its residents were transferred into family group homes and other placements….
The Illoura Children’s Home, in Balwyn, Social Welfare Department was established in 1964. It housed up to 36 children including; boys from 5 to 9 years of age and girls from 5 to 15 years of age, many in sibling groups. From the 1970s it housed fewer children in residential units. Illoura closed in 1984….
Sutton Grange in Mornington was established by the Victorian Government in 1957. The Home accommodated wards of the state in sibling groups. By 1962 it accommodated 30 children: girls from 4 to 17 and boys from 4 to 8 years of age. The children attended local schools. Sutton Grange was closed in September 1977. The…
The Ballarat Industrial School was a state-run institution, which opened in August 1869. The institution housed 215 girls in 1872. In 1879, the Industrial School closed, and became a reformatory for boys. The Ballarat Industrial School was the only institution in Victoria mentioned in the 1872 report by the Royal Commission on Penal and Prison…
The Nelson was a hulk [ship] anchored off Williamstown, Hobson Bay. From 1868, it housed boys aged ten who had been sentenced under the Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act of 1864. By 1872, the vessel housed 383 boys. It was abandoned in 1876 when the boys were transferred to the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum Industrial School,…
The Sunbury Industrial School was established in 1865. It was located on Jacksons Hill, in Sunbury. On its closure in 1879, boys from Sunbury were transferred to the Royal Park Industrial School in Parkville. The Sunbury Industrial School was the first purpose-built institution created by the government in 1865 in response to the Neglected and…
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