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New South Wales - Glossary Term
Foster Care (1881 - )
- From
- 1881
- Location
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Foster care is a home-based service provided to children and young people up to 18 years of age who are temporarily or permanently unable to live with their families of origin. Foster care is arranged by government or not-for-profit agencies, who supervise the placement and pay allowances to foster carers.
- Series Title
- Applications and Adoption files for State wards [Dependent Children and Adoptions Branch, Department of Community Services] (1940 - 1961)
- Date Range
- 1940 - 1961
- Reference
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14655
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Adoption Information Unit:
Postal address: Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: 1300 799 023 or (02) 9716 3005 (from overseas)
Email: Adoption.Information@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/adoption/finding-info
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Ward Maintenance ('M') Files (1942 - 1960)
- Date Range
- 1942 - 1960
- Reference
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14794
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Boarding Out Registers (1923 - 1936)
- Date Range
- 1923 - 1936
- Reference
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14654
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Patrick Sephton interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Bringing them home oral history project (2001)
- Date Range
- 2001 - 2001
- Reference
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994447
[National Library of Australia Bib ID]
- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at Reader Services, National Library of Australia:
Postal address: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6262 1266
Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian/
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Dependent Children Register Cards (c. 1945 - 1972)
- Date Range
- 1945 - 1972
- Reference
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14659
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Foster Parent ('W') Files (1941 - )
- Date Range
- 1941 -
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Substitute Care (State Ward 'B') Files (1955 - )
- Date Range
- 1955 -
- Reference
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-
- Contact
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Please contact the Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services:
Address: Care Leaver Records Access Unit, Community Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone: 1300 137 160 or (02) 9716 2500
Email: CareLeaverRecordsAccessUnit@facs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/out-of-home-care/about-out-of-home-care/were-you-in-out-of-home-care
DETAILS
- Series Title
- List of Names of Wards of State and Names of Foster Carers to whom they went on holidays, St Saviour's Children's Home (1961 - 1964)
- Date Range
- 1961 - 1964
- Reference
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-
- Contact
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Please contact the Registrar, Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn:
Postal Address: GPO Box 1981, Canberra ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 6245 7101
Website: https://anglicancg.org.au/contact-us/
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Caroline Carroll interviewed by Karen George in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Date Range
- -
- Reference
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4933691
[National Library of Australia Bib ID]
- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at Reader Services, National Library of Australia:
Postal address: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6262 1266
Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian/
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Dependent Children Registers (1883 - 1923)
- Date Range
- 1883 - 1923
- Reference
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13358
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales:
Postal Address: PO Box 516, Kingswood NSW 2747
Phone: (02) 9673 1788
Email: info@records.nsw.gov.au
Website: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/contact-us/contact-us/
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