Berry Boys’ Training Farm
Location
Berry
NSW Australia
Provider
Date Opened
Date Closed
Location
Berry NSW
Australia
Provider: NSW Government
Year Opened: 1934
Year Closed: 1977
Berry Training Farm was opened in 1934 by the Department of Child Welfare. It was a farm training school. When it was started it received boys aged between 14 and 18. In the 1950s it housed children who were State Wards and defined as ‘intellectually disabled’.
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Submission [PDF document], Barry Meekings, Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care, 2003–2005. Parliament of Australia
Submission Berry Boys’ Training School, Rudy Warren, The Senate Community Affairs References Committee – Inquiry into Child Abuse on Children in Institutional Care
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