Please contact the Freedom of Information Team at the Department for Child Protection:
Phone: (08) 8226 4399
Postal address: GPO Box 1072, Adelaide SA 5001
Email: DCP.FOI@sa.gov.au
Website, Out-of-Home Care information: https://www.childprotection.sa.gov.au/research-and-publications/freedom-information/provision-information-care-leavers
Website, Adoptions information: https://www.childprotection.sa.gov.au/support-and-guidance/adoption-processes/applying-for-adoption-information
Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Series ID, GRG29/84
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
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. The list gives names and dates of birth and rates payable for doctor’s attendance. Related Homes include Seaforth Convalescent Home, Seaforth Home, and Struan Farm School, Naracoorte.
Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Items in this series that are older than 100 years are open and can be viewed by any member of the public. People mentioned in these records have a right to access information about themselves. To request access to these records please contact the Department for Child Protection Freedom of Information team. To arrange access to open records please contact State Records of South Australia.