Doubleview Group Home (also known as the Innaloo or Metropolitan Group Home) was established in 1983. It was government-run and provided emergency, short and medium term accommodation for school-age children including state wards. Doubleview Group Home closed during the early 1990s.
Doubleview was developed to provide accommodation that was closer to a family home environment while re-establishing the residents’ relationships with their family, or finding alternative long term accommodation for them.
The Home was filled to capacity during its first year of operation. In 1984 there were four children living at Doubleview at the end of the year and by 1990, the group home was able to accommodate up to seven young people aged 12-15 years.
In 2018, a married couple who worked at Doubleview Group Home and Darlington Hostel were charged with historical child sexual assault offences, dating back to the 1990s. The pair died by suicide before they faced trial (Pilat, 2018 & 2019).
It is not known exactly when the Doubleview Group Home closed, but it is believed to have ceased to operate in the 1990s.
From
1983
To
1990s
Alternative Names
Innaloo Group Home
Metropolitan Division Group Home
1983 - 1990s
Doubleview Group Home provided accommodation at Doubleview, Western Australia (Building State unknown)