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The Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre is a building in Saint Martin, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It was formerly known as the Industrial School, the Jersey Home for Boys, and Haut de la Garenne. Its previous uses have included being an industrial school, a children's home, a military signal station, a television filming location, and a youth hostel. In 2008 it became the focus of the largest investigation into child abuse ever conducted in Jersey. ==History== Haut de la Garenne began in 1867 as an industrial school for "young people of the lower classes of society and neglected children". The construction of the school was funded at a cost of £2,410〔http://www.statesassembly.gov.je/documents/propositions/45567-6742-792006.pdf〕 by the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats in order to house and educate boys formerly looked after at the General Hospital in Saint Helier.〔''Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey'' 26 June 1867〕 On 22 June 1867, 45 boys were transferred by coach to the new institution, overseen by Jurats Neel and Aubin, Charles Simon, director of the hospital, and Mr. Higginbottom, master of the new school.〔''Chronique de Jersey'' 26 June 1867〕 By 1900 it had become the Jersey Home for Boys and continued as a children's home for many years. In 1921 the States of Jersey took over the buildings and most of the powers of the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Loi (1921) sur l’Assemblée des Gouverneur, Bailli et Jurés (Transfert de Pouvoirs, etc.) )〕 During the German Occupation during the Second World War, the German military used the building as a signal station. Following the Liberation of 1945, the building continued as a children's home with responsibility being taken over by the Education Committee.〔 On 17 March 1960 the States adopted an act changing the name of the institution to Haut de la Garenne.〔(HAUT DE LA GARENNE ACT 1960 )〕 Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the home received both boys and girls, but as care policy developed the number of children in care was reduced from 1970 onwards. A new wing for staff accommodation was built on the western part of the site in 1970.〔 After the home closed in 1986, the building was used to portray a police station in the TV detective series ''Bergerac''. The Public Works Committee took over the building from the Education Committee in 1986. The building was put to a number of temporary uses while a permanent solution to using the building was considered. It was considered as a potential site for the Territorial Army unit. St. Michael's Preparatory School leased a dormitory block for a time, and the headmaster proposed leasing the whole site for educational and sporting purposes. In 1989 the dormitory wing was converted for use by the Education Committee as temporary respite care for children with special education needs.〔''The house is not a home - but what will they do with Haut de la Garenne?'', Jersey Evening Post, 8 March 1990〕 However the Public Works Committee decided in favour of selling the property in order to purchase a commercial site in Saint Helier for development as housing, or of agreeing a land swap with a hotel in Saint Helier whereby the hotel would develop Haut de la Garenne as a luxury hotel and thereby free the urban hotel site for housing development.〔Jersey Evening Post, 29 June 1989〕 The proposal for a luxury hotel development spurred parishioners of Saint Martin to call a Parish Assembly by means of a requête. This Assembly, held in August 1989, voted to oppose a hotel development at Haut de la Garenne, but indicated that a proposal for a sheltered housing development might be acceptable.〔 In 1991 the States approved a scheme to retain the 1970 wing for respite care, convert the main building for sheltered housing, and construct new housing on the eastern part of the site. This decision was reversed, and in 1992 the Planning and Environment Committee took over administration of the site from Public Services, and the building was used for temporary accommodation for visiting groups of musicians and sportspeople, especially during festivals. Discussions continued on how to use the 2,137 square metres of available building floor area〔 On 8 December 1998 the States voted to establish a trust to manage and operate Haut de la Garenne as a residential centre. On 22 October 2002 the States adopted a ''Law granting an Act of Incorporation to the Association called "The Haut de la Garenne Trust"''.〔http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce/htm/LawFiles/2003/L-01-2003.htm Law granting an Act of Incorporation to the Association called "The Haut de la Garenne Trust"〕 The States spent £2.25m in 2003 to convert the building into a youth hostel,〔 〕 part of the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA). The youth hostel opened for business on 19 March 2004.〔http://www.thisisjersey.com/2004/02/23/tv-presenter-to-open-haut-de-la-garenne-hostel/〕 The building was also used for occasional conferences.〔Jersey Evening Post 25 February 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Haut de la Garenne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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