The Sturt Assessment Unit was a new purpose-built facility built on the site of the former Sturt Community Unit at Sturt in 1995. Run by the government, it provided short term accommodation for State children aged between eight to upper teens. The Sturt Assessment Unit was operating in 2008.
The Sturt Assessment Unit was a new purpose-built facility which replaced the Sturt Community Unit at Sturt in 1995. Run by the Department for Family and Community Services and its successors, it was built on the same site at 318-320 Diagonal Road. The Sturt Assessment Unit provided short term accommodation for State children. 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 Sturt Assessment Unit was operating in 2008.
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, 1995.
Prepared by: Karen George and Gary George
Created: 13 September 2013, Last modified: 12 June 2014