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Babies Home Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home

Minutes of monthly meetings including summaries of Matron’s monthly reports with numbers of admissions and discharges. Minutes also provide information about day-to-day running of home. Quantity: 1 notebook. The Methodist Church homes were run by the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission, now known as Uniting Communities. Records are held at Uniting Communities Access Conditions All personal…

Beth McMenamie Records, Vaughan House

Photographic slides and prints and a scrapbook documenting the activities of Vaughan House while it was under the direction of Superintendent Beth McMenamie. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library….

General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare

State Records of South Australia has merged this Series into GRS 2401 General administration files, multiple number, closed series – Department for Community Welfare and successor agencies.

Aboriginal liaison files – South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC)

Liaison files for young Aboriginal offenders remanded at SAYTC. Includes court mandates, assessment panel reports, liaison court instructions, admission reports, reports on social, family and personal background, medical information and psychiatric reports. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very…

Property and personal disposition records – South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre

These records books are archived under SAYRAC, the name for the Vaughan House from 1979, but were also kept prior to that change. The format and content of books varies but most contain information required for the official handover of children from the Police or Court to the Remand Centre. Books record name, age, date…

Admission/intake cards – South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC)

These admission / intake cards (GRS 6639) make up an alphabetical index of youths admitted to the South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC), previously known as Vaughan House. Although the card index is archived under ‘SAYRAC’ cards were also kept prior to the name change in 1979. The series also includes admission index…

Log Books – South Australia Youth Remand and Assesment Centre (SAYRAC), and others

These Log Books are archived under SAYRAC, the name for the Vaughan House from 1979, but were also kept prior to that change. They also contain information relating to a large number of government institutions operating between 1961 and 1999. A number of different types of log books make up this series including: movement, programme,…

Agreements and correspondence with doctors for the medical treatment of State Children and wards of the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Department

Typed and/or printed agreements signed by doctors in different districts for them to provide ‘professional attendance to certain Wards of the Department’. Agreements sometimes include an attached list of names of children, their dates of birth and current location. One agreement includes a list of children residing at Seaforth Home as at 1 December 1943….

Personal disposition advice forms – Magill Training Centre

This series mainly comprises “Personal disposition/property advice” forms for the Magill Training Centre from 1993 to 1996. It also contains “Receipt for mandate and/or person named thereon” forms for the McNally Training Centre at Magill from 1977 to 1979 and a variety of other records of the Magill Training Centre and predecessors. These include: sick…

Log books – South Australia Youth Training Centre, South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, and predecessors

These logs are archived under SAYTC, the name for McNally Training Centre from 1979, but were also kept prior to that change. Logs record happenings during staff shifts- for staff accountability, to record any action taken and for handover from one shift to another. They record checks on inmates at 5, 15 or 30 minute…