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/6641
These records are part of Records of the South Australian Youth Training Centre (1940 - 1999).
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 another. They record checks on the children at 5, 15 or 30 minute intervals. Entries include names and many other details of children including admittance and discharges, absconding, movements of children between locations, offences, length of sentences, behaviour and mood of children, visitors, medical appointments and details of medications, incidents and action taken, as well as other matters. Different units within each of the Centres has its own log books. The bulk of the records date from 1974 to 1996, although there are some earlier records in this series.
Access to the records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. 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.