McNally Training Centre, later South Australian Youth Training Centre [SAYTC] (GA937)

McNally Training Centre was officially opened by the Premier, the Honourable D. A. Dunstan, on 22 November 1967 on the site of the former Boys Reformatory, Magill.

The Centre was named after Frederick John McNally, formerly Chairman of the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board and head of the Department of Social Welfare, and acted as a reformative institution for older boys committed by the Courts for offences. Boys received instruction in various trades and took part in activities including work in the farm, garden, dairy, poultry run and piggery.

The Centre's new buildings included a sleeping wing; an activities and administration wing containing workshops, a gymnasium, hobbies room, offices, interviewing rooms and classrooms; a concert hall; tuck-shop; kitchen; sick bay; chapel and sports oval. The old main building on the site was demolished in 1968.

In 1979 the name of the Centre was changed to the South Australian Youth Training Centre [SAYTC].

Sources:

South Australian Parliamentary Paper No. 23, 1968-69, Report of the Administration of the Social Welfare Act, 1926-1965 and the work of the Department of Social Welfare for the Year ended 30th June 1968, pp. 3, 14-15.

South Australian Parliamentary Paper No. 23, 1980-81, Report of the Director General of Community Welfare for the Year ended 30 June 1980, p. 26.