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 1960s it held 40 primary school age boys. Yarra Bay Boys’ Home closed in 1985.
A 1966 publication of
the Child Welfare Department described the boys at Yarra Bay House as
being ‘mostly dull or educationally retarded’, although ‘many would be
suitable for foster home placement if foster homes were available.’
There was an internal school at Yarra Bay House. In 1977 the Yarra Bay House was listed in the Annual Report of the Department of Youth and Community Services as being ‘prepared to
provide special resocialization programmes for intellectually
handicapped people who are under the Minister’s guardianship’.
From
c. 1955
To
1985
Alternative Names
Yarra Bay House
c. 1955 - 1985
Yarra Bay Boys' Home was situated at Yarra Point, Phillip Bay (La Perouse), New South Wales (Building Still standing)
