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, GRG27/13
These records are part of Records created by the State Children's Department (1886 - 1927).
This register contains basic information about children admitted to the Salvation Army Boys’ Probationary School, Mount Barker. The register contains the following information: (1) Number, (2) Name, (3) Age, (4) Date of birth, (5) Late place of residence, (6) What relatives in the Colony, where Living, Earnings and Occupation. Right hand page includes: (7) Court of committal, (8) Reasons for admission etc. (9) Date of admission, (10) Date of leaving, (11) Where gone to.
Notes on contents – (8) Reasons for Admission: This entry often is ‘Transfers from Industrial School’ or ‘Private inmate vide memo from Superintendent’ or ‘Private inmate vide Weekly Return’ (with date). It is therefore possible that more information might be held in correspondence files of the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Department (GRG 27/1). From 1914 no entries are made in (2) Name, (3) Age, (4) Date of birth, (5) What relatives and (6) Court of committal columns. Only name and admission and discharge details are given. This corresponds with the appearance of the entry ‘vide weekly Return’, suggesting more information may be held in those returns. The second half of book is blank.
Access to the records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Those records over 100 years old are open and can be accessed 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.