Oranga Tamariki holds records about Fareham House from 1961-1999. Archives NZ (Wellington) holds records about Fareham House from at least 1959-1961, with Oranga Tamariki as the controlling agency for restricted records. Oranga Tamariki should also hold personal records on young people who stayed at the institution and whom Department of Social Welfare (DSW) had involvement with.
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Gender: female Capacity: 24 beds "Opened to provide for the social and domestic training of older Maori girls who had left school and who required a period of intitutional tranining prior to placement. A change in policy concerning the function of this institution was made in 1963 and it now caters for difficult girls, both European and Maori, or primary school age who need long trerm institutional training." Quoted from these sources: o Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand, Department of Social Welfare, 1979 o Residential Care for Children provided by Voluntary Organisations as at 31 July 1984, Department of Social Welfare o Voluntary Residential Facilities for Children, Department of Social Welfare, 1984 Closed in April 1981. Controlling organisation: Government Education Department 1972, Department of Social Welfare 1972-1981; State control
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