A child and youth care centre is a facility for the provision of residential care to more than six children outside their family's environment in accordance with a residential care programme suited for the children in the facility.

This excludes:

• A partial care facility.
• A drop-in centre.
• A boarding school.
• A school hostel or other residential facility attached to a school.
• A prison.
• Any other establishment which is maintained mainly for the tuition or training of children other than an establishment which is maintained for children ordered by a court to receive tuition for training.

The centre provides services to 45 children.