The Woodville Community Unit was the new name given to the Woodville Assessment Unit in 1992. Run by the government in Woodville, the Unit provided longer term accommodation for State Children and supported them to integrate back into the community. The Unit closed in 1993.
The Woodville Community Unit was the new name for the Woodville Assessment Unit from 1992. Run by the Department for Family and Community Services in Woodville, the Unit provided longer term accommodation for State Children and supported them to integrate back into the community. Units usually accommodated up to eight children.
During the 1990s, because of a lack of foster care or residential care placements, children as young as eight were often placed in the same units as young people in their upper teens.
The Woodville Community Unit closed in 1993.
1990 - 1992 Woodville Assessment Unit
1992 - 1993 Woodville Community Unit
Sources used to compile this entry: Mullighan, the Hon E.P., Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry: Allegations of sexual abuse and death from criminal conduct, presented to the South Australian Parliament by the Hon. E.P. Mullighan QC, Commisioner, Children in State Care Commission of Enquiry, Adelaide, South Australia, 2008, 564 pp, https://www.childprotection.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/107201/children-in-state-care-commission-of-inquiry-introducation.pdf; Annual report of the Department for Family and Community Services, 1992/93.
Prepared by: Karen George and Gary George
Created: 13 September 2013, Last modified: 12 June 2014
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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