Following the changes introduced by the Education Act 1944, Wavertree became a school for mixed pupils aged 7–11, with Henshaw's School for the Blind in Manchester taking senior children. Those with academic promise were sent to Worcester College for Boys, Chorleywood College for Girls or the Royal Normal School, where pupils would generally stay until they were 18. The Hardman Street site became a technical college for the North West region for those aged 16 to 21. General academic education would continue, plus the provision of vocational training in basket-making, shoe repairing, brush-making, and hand-, flat- and round-machine knitting - all wholly inadequate in a modernising post war industrialised world where many blind people were now being employed under the terms of the Disabled Persons Employment Act of 1944. The technical college failed to move with the times, which in turn led to a dwindling of its students and eventually to closure in 1957. The building was sold to Liverpool Corporation in 1959, who leased it to the city's police force for use as their headquarters until they moved to Canning Place in 1982. It has since served several purposes.
