Please contact Adoptions and Permanency Services:
Postal Address: PO Box 538, Hobart TAS 7001
Phone: (03) 6166 0422
Aftercare Support Program Phone: 1300 654 583
Adoptions and Permanency Services Email: adoption.services@communities.tas.gov.au
After Care Support Program Email: aftercaresupport@communities.tas.gov.au
Website: https://www.decyp.tas.gov.au/children/adoptions-and-permanency-services/
Quote this number to access your records: Tasmanian Archives Series Number, AD256
These records are held by Tasmanian Archives (2011 - current).
The Record Cards of ‘Non-Citizen’ Children Including Children Arriving Under the Child Migration Scheme contain personal details of children who were not Australian citizens and whose guardian was the Director of the Social Services Department and its successors between 1950 and 1989. The cards also provide some brief information about the welfare of the children.
Closed D75 years
D75 means these records are closed to the general public for 75 years from the date of the last entry in them. People wishing to access these records should contact Adoptions and Permanency Services After Care Support Program, which is run by the Department of Communities Tasmania. Applicants will be required to fill out a Personal Information Protection (PIP) form. How access is provided once permission is granted will depend on the file. Usually Adoption and Permanency Services request it back and then provide access or copies. Staff at the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office may be able to assist you in finding other relevant records.
The cards include the name and address of the person with whom the child lived. This series does not contain record cards from 1969.
The Commonwealth Minister of Immigration was the guardian of these children but, according to the Commonwealth Immigration Act, he could delegate the responsibility to the Director of the Social Services Department and its successors. That is why employees of those Departments created the record cards.