Daruk

Location

Windsor
NSW Australia

Provider

Date Opened

Date Closed

Location

Corner Blacktown Road & Kingswood Road
Windsor NSW
Australia

Provider: Government-Run

Year Opened: 1960

Year Closed: 1981

Daruk was opened at South Windsor in 1960 by the Department of Community Services. It was a training school for juvenile offenders who were of school age. Some children who were committed to institutions in the Australian Capital Territory were sent to Daruk.

Related News Articles

Victims of sex assault at Daruk Training School break silence after 40 years, 12 March 2018 (News.com.au)
Daruk Training School: Alleged sex abuse of young boys ‘nothing short of horrific’, police say, 12 March 2018 (ABC News)
First arrest in alleged Sydney boys’ home paedophile ring, 12 March 2018 (News.com.au)
Australian government-run home exposed as ‘paedophile’s paradise’, 11 March 2018 (9 News)

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