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, GRG29/143
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
This series contains a variety of different records from the Morialta Protestant Children’s Home, including records relating to the admission and discharge of children, minutes of committee meetings, general correspondence, and terms of employment for staff. Files relating to children’s admission can include information regarding a child’s parents, background to child’s situation and admission, and information about previous homes admitted to. Release forms are signed by the parent or guardian who removed the child from the home.
Access to 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.