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Access Conditions
Any former child client of the Alternate Care programs for which CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services currently holds records may get in touch by telephone or mail and, providing proof of identification can be presented, may view their file in the presence of a social worker from the Foster Care Team.
Records
The records include: Catholic Welfare Bureau Admission Forms (which give particulars of child, particulars of parents, and reason for admission), applications for migration to Australia; notification of reception forms (Child Welfare Department Form 14); personal record cards (which include name, date and place of birth, parents' names, health and immunization record, date of admission and discharge and reason for admission); baptism and confirmation certificates; Commonwealth Department of Social Security 'Advice of discharge of child from institution' and 'Advice of admission of child to institution' forms. It must be remembered that these records are incomplete, not all of the information listed above survives for every child and records do not necessarily survive for all children.
Quantity: 11 lever arch folders
Finding Aids
The information is accessed via a database which has been created by Centacare staff. The database allows a surname search to be conducted and, if there are any surviving records for that name, it provides the cross reference to the original records.
