VPRS 16749 Client Files, Family and Adolescent Services Division, Single Number System

Full description

This series comprises client files created by the Family and Adolescent Services Division of the Department of Community Welfare Services (VA 613). This Divsion superseded the Family Welfare and Youth Welfare Divisions of the Social Welfare Department (VA 946), absorbing their functions, re-uniting child and youth administration within the one division. (For previous series see VPRS 10071 State Ward Files and VPRS 16747 for Youth Division Files).

This series documents the administration of each child's care and their interaction with this Division and predecessors. The series consists mainly of files of wards of state under the age of 18 and young persons between the ages of 15 to 21 who were sentenced to a Youth Training Centre by the Children's Court. They contain police reports, Children's Court papers such as Child Offence or Protection Application Advice forms, wardship documents, social worker's case notes and plans, reports sent by institutional staff and/or regional social workers who worked with the children. In some cases, files contain details of adoption.

The series also contains case histories of non-wards and ex-wards of state, who were sentenced to a Youth Training Centre by an adult court from 1978.

This series does not include:
- files of children who were given Youth Training Centre sentences of less than nine months or probation or parole orders by the Children's Court, as these were administered by the Office of Corrections - refer to VPRS 4464.

- files of 17 to 21 year old who were sentenced to Youth Training Centres by adult courts - refer also to VPRS 4464.

Administrative changes in 1986 resulted in these files being superseded by a recordkeeping system controlled by the Statutory Client Information System (SCIS), see VPRS 16650. The files in this series (i.e VPRS 16749) relating to children who were still clients of the Division at this time were transferred to VPRS 16650 and were allocated new file numbers from that system.