These reports contain yearly updates on the home providing information about numbers of children admitted, staff changes and building developments. No names of children are mentioned. Access Conditions Most records at the Lutheran Archives are available for inspection. Some records have closed or restricted access. Some private records that are less than 30 years old…
Minutes of monthly meetings including summaries of Matron’s monthly reports with numbers of admissions and discharges. Minutes also provide information about day-to-day running of home. Quantity: 1 notebook. The Methodist Church homes were run by the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission, now known as Uniting Communities. Records are held at Uniting Communities Access Conditions All personal…
Photographic slides and prints and a scrapbook documenting the activities of Vaughan House while it was under the direction of Superintendent Beth McMenamie. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library….
This series includes liaison files for young Aboriginal people remanded at the South Australian Youth Training Centre and Magill Training Centre. The files include personal information about the young people, including family and personal background, medical history and psychiatric reports, history of interactions with the courts, names and contact details of their relatives and associates,…
These records contain information required for the official handover of children from the Police or Court to the South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC), and its predecessor Vaughan House. They record name, age, date of birth, police station or court and property belonging to youth, and note if they were to be returned…
These admission/intake cards make up an alphabetical index of youths admitted to the South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC), previously known as Vaughan House. Although the card index is archived under ‘SAYRAC’ cards were also kept prior to the name change in 1979. The series also includes admission index cards for Lochiel Park…
These Log Books contain information recorded by staff about the day-to-day occurrences at a number of children’s institutions run by the South Australian Government between 1961 and 1999. A number of different types of log books make up this series including: movement, programme, routine, observation, detention, Centre Duty Officer [CDO], day book, Matron, medical, visitors,…
Typed and/or printed agreements signed by doctors in different districts for them to provide ‘professional attendance to certain Wards of the Department’. Agreements sometimes include an attached list of names of children, their dates of birth and current location. One agreement includes a list of children residing at Seaforth Home as at 1 December 1943….
This series includes records about the official handover of young people to the Children’s Courts or the custody of South Australian Police from South Australian Youth Training Centres. There are two sets of records in this series, which include similar information. One set of records, called ‘Personal disposition/property advice records’, are from the McNally Training…
These logs record comments made by officers at the Boys Reformatory Magill, McNally Training Centre, South Australian Youth Training Centre, Vaughan House, South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, and Magill Training Centre. The logs record happenings during staff shifts- for staff accountability, to record any action taken and for handover from one shift to…
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