Correspondence files relating to social development with “SD” prefix is a series of files created by the Social Development Branch of the Northern Territory Administration and its successors. These subject files deal with many different welfare matters and include information related to the placement of children in government and non government Homes in the Northern…
Correspondence files relating to State Children with “SC” prefix is a series of files relating to State Children in the Northern Territory. The series includes records related to Aboriginal and non Aboriginal children in care in the Northern Territory and interstate. Each file carries the name of an individual child. The files include letters, reports…
Correspondence files relating to children with “C” prefix are files about children in the care of, or assisted in some way by the Welfare Branch and its successors. Each file carries the name of an individual child. The files generally consist of letters, reports and other documents about the placement of children. The files relate…
Correspondence files relating to the alleviation of distress with “A” prefix is a series of files concerning the provision of welfare services of many different types to individuals and families. Each file carries the name of an individual or a family and includes letters and other documents related to applications for emergency assistance. Access Conditions…
Correspondence files, Welfare Branch is a large series of correspondence files on many different types of welfare related subjects. This series also includes many files on individuals assisted by the Welfare Branch, including children under the care of the Branch. The files relate to both Aboriginal and non Aboriginal children and families. Access Conditions Most…
The series Fostering files with ‘F’ prefix consists of files relating to fostering and/or adoptions of children. The files were created to record information related to applications from prospective foster/adoptive parents. The files include a range of documents related to the process of fostering and adoption of children, including assessments, agreements, correspondence and legal documents….
The Methodist Overseas Mission, a department of the Methodist Church of Australia, was established around 1930. Previously it was known as the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia. It established missions and Homes in the Northern Territory and Western Australia during the early and mid twentieth century. The Methodist Overseas Mission became part of the Uniting…
This State Children’s Council file contains correspondence and copies of Minutes of Council meetings relating to the establishment of the first Government run Receiving Home in Darwin. Documents on the file also concern the fire which destroyed the Fannie Bay Receiving Home in May 1957 and arrangements made for re-establishing the Home at an alternative…
Palmerston House – Receiving Home for Adolescent Girls, Darwin is a Welfare Branch file. It contains correspondence and other documents related to the Adolescent Receiving Home and Palmerston House. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file are open and other parts are not….
The Adolescent Receiving Home was opened by the government in Darwin in 1961 as a temporary Receiving Home for older girls, mostly those in the care of the State. The run-down premises accommodated up to seven girls. In 1963 the Home closed and the girls were transferred to Palmerston House. The need for a separate…
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