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, GRS/13484
These records are held by State Records of South Australia (1919 - current).
This series provides indexes to the admission registers for the Boys Reformatory at Magill and on the Hulk Fitzjames, and the McNally Training Centre. The indexes contain the name of the child and their admission number. It is not clear if all of the admission registers that contain the full admission entries for the children listed in this index have survived.
Access to these records is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Some of these records are still restricted, while others over 100 years old 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 restricted 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.
The volumes are index-tabbed alphabetically. Loose pages were adhesive taped into the first volume where the space for names for a particular letter was exhausted. The information in the volumes is limited to the surname of the child, followed by their initials (in the volume dated 1877 – 1967) or first names (in the volume dated 1968 – 1975). An admission number for each boy is written next to his name. In the first volume the number 33 – 77, for example, meant that the child was the 33rd inmate taken in the year 1877. In the second volume the number 33 – 68 referred to the 33rd inmate taken in the year 1968.