The Aboriginal Child Care Agency was established in South Australia in 1978. It was established as an Aboriginal community controlled organisation to recruit Aboriginal foster parents to take in Aboriginal children. Prior to 1978 many Aboriginal children were removed from their families and placed in institutions or with non-Aboriginal families. The Agency worked to place…
Family Homes were a type of ‘care’ in South Australia and the Northern Territory. In South Australia, Family Homes were established by the government after the passing of the South Australian Community Welfare Act in 1972. They provided smaller group care for up to ten children under the supervision of house parents. They were generally…
The Boarding Out Society took on the voluntary role of visiting and inspecting boarded out children in South Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was officially formed in 1872 by Emily Clark and Catherine Helen Spence who had campaigned for boarding out since the 1860s. They believed that ‘unfortunate’ children would…
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare defines adoption as “The legal process by which a person legally becomes a child of the adoptive parent(s) and legally ceases to be a child of his/her existing parent(s)”. In Australia, each state or territory has its own adoption legislation and its own policies and processes. In the…
The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (ACPP) was developed in the early 1980s and was incorporated into adoption and child protection legislation from 1983 onwards. In 2009 it was renamed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle. The Principle is intended to guide child protection services to strengthen Aboriginal children’s connections with their family,…
The Records of the Immigration, Publicity and Tourism Department and predecessor and successor agencies, includes applications for assisted passage for youths and agricultural farm workers between 1911 – 1930. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact State Records South Australia. A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research…
The collection Records of the Aborigines Advancement League dates from 1938 to 2008 and is held by State Library of South Australia. It contains records created by the Aborigines Advancement League, including minutes, correspondence, reports, newsletters & other publications, and brief histories. Some of the records in this collection relate to the Wiltja Hostel at…
The Records of the Uniting Church in Australia Frontier Services is a large collection of over 500 boxes of records dating from 1897 to 2011 held by the National Library of Australia. Records in this collection were created by the Australian Inland Mission, later known as the Uniting Church Frontier Services. This collection includes records…
The collection Records of the Legacy Club of Adelaide Inc. includes subject files, correspondence, records of deceased servicemen and dependants, minutes of committees, wages book, medical assessment records, papers relating to Waverley House and Business College scholarships, Junior Boys’ Club, Junior Girls’ Club, members’ rolls at luncheons, circulars, children’s programmes, photographs and posters. Access Conditions…
Records of the Women’s Australian National Services (W.A.N.S.) is a collection held by the State Library of South Australia. The collection includes minutes, annual reports, photographs, members’ roll, financial records, training manual, and newspaper cuttings relating to the Services and Wanslea Children’s Home. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact the State Library…
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