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For years, the Cyril Ross Chil­dren’s Home in Tu­na­puna was a life­line for chil­dren liv­ing with HIV/AIDS. On De­cem­ber 31, 2025, how­ev­er, the in­sti­tu­tion closed its doors af­ter fail­ing to re­ceive its res­i­dence li­cence from the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty.

The space along El Do­ra­do Road had served as a res­i­den­tial fa­cil­i­ty for the chil­dren for the last 31 years.

Con­tact­ed on the is­sue, St Vin­cent de Paul So­ci­ety pres­i­dent Nigel Phillips said it was a dif­fi­cult de­ci­sion to make, but not­ed it was not fi­nan­cial­ly vi­able to keep the space run­ning with­out a li­cence.