Please contact the GIPA Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records: Address: PO Box 4007, Royal North Shore LPO, St Leonards NSW 2065 Phone: (02) 9462 9947 Email: NSLHD-PrivacyandGIPA@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/AboutUs/gipa/Pages/default.aspx
Please contact the Librarian at Northcott: Address: The Northcott Library, Ground Floor, 1 Fennell Street, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 1800 818 286 Email: northcott@northcott.com.au Website:https://northcott.com.au/contact/
Find & Connect web resource staff were advised in January 2014 that the majority of records of the Margaret Reid Hospital for Crippled Children (1937-1981) have been destroyed. However, it appears that staff of Northcott hold some information about former residents of this Home. Access Conditions For access to any surviving records of the Margaret…
The Find & Connect web resource staff have been advised that any surviving records of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children are likely to be held by Northcott. Access Conditions For access to records of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children please contact Northcott.
The Christ Church Boys League Welfare Bureau was set up Sydney in 1936 by the Church of England’s Reverend John Hope, through the Home Mission Society, to help boys through the Children’s Court.
As at May, 2013, Northern Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records managed the records of Dalwood Children’s Home. People seeking access to records will need to provide a photocopy of identification, such as a drivers’ licence, and a letter stating the years they were in the Home, including a contact number.
The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PIPP) deals with how NSW government agencies manage personal information. It applies to state government agencies, statutory or declared authorities, the police service and local councils. The Act also sets out the role of the NSW Privacy Commissioner. It does not apply to health records and does…
Avoca Nursing Home, in Randwick, was a private hospital. According to research done by the staff of the Northern Territory Department of Health, it was a place where children from the Northern Territory were sent, but little is known about its use as a children’s home or hospital. By 1988 Avoca Nursing Home had become…
The Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (157/1998) was ‘An Act to provide for the care and protection of, and the provision of services to, children and young persons’. This is the Act that created the contemporary system of child protection in New South Wales. It was, in 2014, the legislation underpinning…
The Child Protection (Prohibited Employment) Act 1998 was ‘An Act to prohibit the employment in child-related employment of person found guilty of committing certain serious sex offences; and for related purposes’. It was passed in the wake of the Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. It was repealed and replaced in…
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