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, GRG29/144
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
These three minute books relate to the business and meetings of the Board of Governors of the Morialta Protestant Children’s Home, and also refer to the business of the Home’s Admission Committee. Names of children are occasionally mentioned in this committee’s report when seeking Board’s approval for admission or for prospective adoption, although the reports generally only gives numbers of children admitted. Later minutes also refer to other reports including: Administration committee, Homes Control committee, Inside and outside control committees, matrons’ reports and superintendents’ reports. Summaries of reports provide general and statistical information. Other discussion in minutes relates to running of home, regulations, policies, maintenance, finance and staff matters. Volumes 2 and 3 include some full matron’s and superintendent’s reports from 1950s-1960s which include names and details of children.
Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. 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.