VPRS 18210 Index of Wards transferred from Family Welfare Division to Youth Welfare Division (Children's Court Advisory Service )

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This series is an index that provides references to ward file numbers and to the date of transfer of clients from the Family Welfare Division to the Youth Welfare Division.

File number references in this series may provide access to files in VPRS 10071 Ward Files. Transfer dates may provide access to entries in VPRS 18211 Register of Family Welfare Transfers from which record you can obtain Youth Welfare Division file references to files in VPRS 16747.

The volume was compiled by the Children's Court Advisory Service which was part of the Social Welfare Branch of the Chief Secretary's department (and its successor agencies), to provide advice to Courts and assist them in determining the most appropriate dispositions regarding young people brought before them.

This service operated primarily to assist the various Melbourne Children's Courts and provide reports in relation to the following case matters:
- Irreconcilable Differences applications,
- pre-sentence reports,
- parole plans
- verbal reports
- a liaison function in respect of children from country Regions remanded to Turana.

The volume is divided into 26 sections labelled A to Z. Entries in each section record a number (the state ward number), client name, client date of birth and transfer date. There are no column headings and mostly fewer than 40 entries per letter of the alphabet.

While all entries under a particular letter are for clients with surnames beginning with that letter, entries are in roughly chorological order by transfer date, not in alphabetical order.