Yawarra Training School For Boys
Yawarra Training School For Boys
Kurri Kurri
NSW
Australia
Provider: NSW Government
Year Opened: 1969
Year Closed: 1980
Yawarra Training School was established by the Child Welfare Department in 1969. “Yawarra” is an Aboriginal word meaning “to take care of”. The Training School was siutated at Kurri Kurri. The facility was primarily for young men under the age of eighteen years transferred from Corrective Services.
On 2 May, 1969 under section 49 of the Child Welfare Act, 1939, as amended, Yawarra Training School for Boys was proclaimed “a school for the reception, detention, maintenance, discipline, education and training of children and young persons committed to such institution”.
The School provided facilities to train the boys in a craft or trade. Yawarra closed in 1979. It was converted to a unit for males aged 18 to 21 for a year.
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