Anglewood/ Burradoo Truant School records, State Archives NSW (1943 - 1979)

Access Conditions

Access to these records is currently restricted. In New South Wales, records relating to individuals, such as case files and correspondence are closed to public access for 100 years. Records such as registers and indexes are closed to public access for 80 years.

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Records

The following information about these records has been published in the State Archives catalogue:

• Anglewood School at Burradoo admission register, 1943-1970. Reference Number: RNCG-4979.
  These records have not yet been fully processed, and so no further description is available.
• Punishment Register, 1943-1970. Reference Number: NRS-20619.
  This register records information about children who lived at Anglewood and received punishments at the school. It includes information such as child's name, date, reason for punishment, names of other children involved (e.g. complainant and witnesses), date of hearing for the misconduct, plea entered, decision made, and corporal punishment inflicted.
• Institutional files ([1] "B" files), 1959-1974. Reference Number: NRS-14693.
  These two boxes of records consist of institutional case files for children living at Anglewood.