Oranga Tamariki holds records about: - 'Epuni Boys' Home' or 'Epuni Residential Centre' from 1963-2003. - 'Epuni Care and Protection Residence' from 2003-2015. Archives NZ (Wellington) also holds records about Epuni, particularly from 1954-1974, with Oranga Tamariki as the controlling agency for restricted records.
Opened as Lower Hutt Boys' Home in 1956. Currently operating as Epuni Care and Protection Residence
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Controlling organisation: Government Education Department 1972, Department of Social Welfare 1972-1981, Oranga Tamariki; State control
A former inmate wrote a book 'Little criminals' about the experiences of residents and staff at the home (published 2011), which inspired a documentary of the same name in 2015.
Information provided by Archives NZ to the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry on 14 March 2024
Office of the Children's Commissioner OPCAT monitoring visit report for Epuni Care and Protection Residence (2 March 2021): https://www.manamokopuna.org.nz/documents/284/Oranga-Tamariki-Residence-Visit-2020.pdf
Search of the reports from the Royal Commission of Inquiry
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