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, GRG29/110
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
This series comprises five (5) registers of admissions to the Boys’ Reformatory, Magill from 1877 to 1943. Volume 1 also covers admissions to the Boys’ Reformatory Hulk, The Fitzjames. The information included in these registers varies over time, but most volumes give child’s admission number, name, age, date of birth, last place of residence, details of relatives, court of committal, reason for admission, date of admission, date of leaving and destination. Volume 1 covering the period 1877-1898 has columns for ‘ship’ and ‘how long in colony’, but most entries read ‘native born’. Some entries into the register mention transfers to or from other institutions, such as the Roman Catholic Boys’ Reformatory, Brooklyn Park.
Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Records older than 100 years are open access 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 these 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.
