Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Gladesville Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Gladesville, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case files, photographs,…
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Callan Park Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Callan Park, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case…
This is a collection of Oral History recordings created by Roslyn Burge and Ann-Therese King and eight former patients and staff of Rozelle Hospital (formerly known as Callan Park Hospital) who lived or worked at the hospital between 1935 and 2008. The collection includes sixteen interview files, as well as accompanying transcripts and photographs. Interviewees…
The records of the South Australian Children’s and Youth Courts contain case files and records about children and young people who had cases before the courts. The files can relate to children and young people who were in the process of being made wards of the state, who were being adopted, or who were charged…
State Records of South Australia holds the administrative records created and kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare. The records contain references to children who were in State care, adoption requests, photographs of some children and children’s institutions, and discussions of policy matters relating to child welfare and institutional care. Access…
State Records of South Australia holds the minutes of council and committee meetings that were created and kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare. These minutes include notes on discussion of individual cases, including notes on the conduct and education of State wards, allegations of neglect of State wards, transfers of…
State Records of South Australia holds many records of correspondence written to or by the Social Welfare Departments and its predecessors. The records were kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare. The records include details about children, including references to children being committed to State care, foster and institutional placements or…
State Records of South Australia holds records that contain information about foster mothers and maternity homes. The records were kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare. The records contain details about women who were licensed to be foster mothers for children in State care, details about children who were placed in…
State Records of South Australia holds many records that contain information about South Australian families who had contact with the child welfare system, and relating to the paternity of South Australian children who were born outside of marriage (including for cases where this is not noted on a birth certificate). They may contain some information…
The New South Wales Government Departments for Child and Social Welfare created a collection of about 5000 photographs relating to out-of-home care and state wardship. This collection includes images of individual children who had been placed in government-run Homes and institutions. Some children appearing in photographs have been named, but many have not yet been…