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New South Wales - Glossary Term
State Ward ( - )
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- Location
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State ward (or 'ward of state') was the term used to describe a child under the guardianship of a State child welfare authority (such as the New South Wales Child Welfare Department).
- 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
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- Collection Title
- Records relating to State Wards, New South Wales (1881 - )
- Date Range
- 1881 -
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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