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, GRG29/136
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
These two large photo albums contain photographs of institutions under the control of the Department of Social Welfare and its predecessors, as well as some privately run institutions. Photographs include images of interiors and exteriors of institutions as well as children and staff. A large number of photographs of children on annual camps are also included in this section, as well as photographs of exhibitions of craftwork made by the children. The majority of the photographs date from the 1940s and 1950s.
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.
Photographs include images from these institutions:
Seaforth Home
Glandore Industrial School
Struan Farm School, Naracoorte
Kumanka Boys’ Hostel
Lochiel Park Boys’ Training Centre
Allambi Girls’ Hostel
Boys’ Reformatory, Magill (aka Magill Boys’ Training School)
Vaughan House (formerly Barton Vale Girls’ Home)
The Convent of the Good Shepherd ‘The Pines’