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, GRG29/15
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
These registers record information about children born at the Destitute Asylum on North Terrace, and from 1917 at the Magill Home after the Lying-in (maternity) section moved there from the Destitute Asylum. This register provides details of child born and information about parents. Entries give names of child and parents, date of birth of child, religion, nationality, date of discharge, parents occupations and place of residence, and where gone to on discharge.
Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Records in this series older than 100 years are open, 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.