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
These records are held by Department for Child Protection (2016 - current).
Records of Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home are held by the Adoption and Family Information Service of SA. It is a collection of records that includes photographs from the Methodist Home for Babies and Unmarried Mothers in 1950.
All applications for access to records are made under the provisions of the Adoption Act 1988 or the Freedom of Information Act 1991, depending on whether the records relate to a person affected by adoption, or a former ward of the state. Completed application forms and additional documents are to be lodged with the Freedom of Information team at the Department for Child Protection.