VPRS 18190 Statistical Returns of Aboriginal Children placed in "Approved Voluntary Child Homes"

Full description

This series comprises a single volume created to house correspondence and a report on the number of Aboriginal children in children's homes and reception centres. The correspondence and report are dated between 31 August and 30 September 1966. There is no information in the record to explain why it was created.

The correspondence comprises copies of a form letter sent to the targeted institutions dated 31 August 1966 in which the numbers of wards and non ward Aboriginal children resident in the institutions was requested. The form letter is on the letterhead of the Social Welfare Department, Family Welfare Division. The returned information was contained in the copy of the form letter or in separate pieces of correspondence.

Information requested in the form letter was, for wards and non-wards, their full name, date of birth and approximate date of admission to the institution. The volume also contains a carbon copy of a typed, consolidated list of children by name. There are different parts of the list reporting:

Non-Ward Aboriginal or Part Aboriginal Children placed in Approved Voluntary Children's Homes as at 30 September, 1966 This report shows name, date of birth, approximate date of admission and name of the home.

Aboriginal or Part-Aboriginal Children - Wards of the Social Welfare Department resident in Established or Approved Children's Homes - as at 30th September 1966. This list includes names and addresses of parents.