Victoria
State Library of Victoria Collection
Swanston St, Melbourne
Collections:
- MS 10051
- Victorian Children’s Aid Society
- Period: 1893 - 1977
- Extent: 15 Boxes, 38 V.
- Description: laws, annual reports, minutes, financial records, case histories,
- Court committals, fostering and adoption records of children under the care of the society, correspondence, published records, press cuttings and photos.
- Access: Restricted
- MS 13248
- National Council for the Single Mother and her Child (Australia)
- Period: 1970-1984
- Extent: 14 Boxes
- Description: correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, press
- Releases, newsletters.
Public Record Office Victoria
- Series Title: Parliamentary Counsel Bill Files
- Series Number: VPRS 10265
- Unit Number: 90
- Description: Adoption of Children, E.B 68
- Period: 1916-1939
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Parliamentary Counsel Bill Files
- Series Number: VPRS 10265
- Unit Number: 515
- Description: Adoption of Children
- Period: 1940-1963
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Parliamentary Counsel Bill Files
- Series Number: VPRS 10265
- Unit Number: 600
- Description: Adoption of Children; 1965 Rules
- Period: 1964-65
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Parliamentary Counsel Bill Files
- Series Number: VPRS 10265
- Unit Number: 124
- Description: Adoption of Children, E.B 95
- Period: 1948-
- Access: Open
- Series Title: General Correspondence Files, Multiple Number System 1
- Department of the Premier (also known as Premier’s Department, 1960 - 1982)
- Agency Number: VA2717
- Series Number: VPRS 7614
- Period: 1967-1976
- Description: Government files including Social Welfare, with adoption information
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Board Hearing Files
- Industrial Relations Commission
- Agency Number: VA1009
- Series Number: VPRS 9600
- Description: Insertion of Adoption Law Provisions
- Period: 1981-1993
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Acts of Parliament
- Legislative Assembly
- Agency Number: VA2585
- Series Number: VPRS 14558
- Period: 1928-1958
- Description: Act No. 3605 Adoption of Children Act 1928, Consolidated Act 1928; Act No. 4381 Adoption of Children 2nd Session – 32th Parliament (1936); Act No. 4903 Adoption of Children 3rd Session – 34th Parliament (1942); Act No. 5666 Adoption of Children (Amendment) – 1st Session – 39th Parliament (1953); Act No. 5851 Adoption of Children (Amendment) – 40th Parliament (1955); Act No. 6192 Adoption of Children Act 1958, Consolidated Acts 1958.
- Access: Restricted
- Agency: Child Welfare Department
- Agency Number: VA 1467:
- Series Title: Service Register – VPRS 6755
- Period: 1921-1924
- Description: Statutory Authority of the Department of Neglected Children and
- Reformatory Schools to Place Neglected Children in Service
- Access: Closed
- Series Title: Child Migration Files – VPRS 10092
- Period: 1947-1971
- Description: Child Migration Files
- Access: Closed
- Series Title: Index Books to State Ward Registers – VPRS 6757
- Period: 1864-1910
- Description: Register of State Wards
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Index to Crown Solicitors Opinion Books – VPRS 7774
- Period: 1866-1929
- Description: Crown Solicitors Opinions including on Adoption Orders
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Institutionalised Children’s Register – VPRS 5064
- Period: 1937-1945
- Description: A collection of information on a small number of children in state care
- Access: Closed
- Series Title: Children’s Overseas Reception Board Files – VPRS 10093
- Period: 1940-1945
- Description: Client files of children ‘evacuated’ to Australia from the UK during
- WWII
- Access: Closed
- Series Title: Annual Reports – VPRS 5690
- Unit : 1
- Period: 1883-1888
- Unit: 2
- Period: 1889-1897
- Unit: 3
- Period: 1901-1909
- Description: Department Annual Reports
- Access: Open
- Series Title: State Ward Case Files – VPRS 10071
- Period: 1920-1981
- Description: State Ward Files
- Access: Closed
- Series Title:
- Personnel Files and Administration Policy Files – VPRS 10096
- Period: 1922-1954
- Description: Personnel and Administrative Policy Files
- Access: Closed
- Agency: Department of Industrial and Reform Schools
- Agency Number 1466:
- Series Title: Index Books to State Ward Registers
- Series Number: VPRS 6757
- Period: 1864-1910
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Index to Crown Solicitor’s Opinion Books
- Series Number: VPRS 7773
- Period: 1866-1960
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Crown Solicitor’s Opinion Books
- Series Number: VPRS 7774
- Period: 1866-1960
- Access: Open
- Series Title: Annual Reports
- Series Number: VPRS 5690
- Period: 1883-1909
- Access: Open
- Agency: Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committees
- Agency Number: VA4000
- Series Title: Committee Records
- Series Number: VPRS 10977
- Period: 1992-2004
- Description: Adoption (Amendment) Regulations 2002 Statutory Rule No.
76/2002; Adoption (Inter-country Fees) Regulations 2002, Statutory Rule No.
128/2003; - Access: Restricted
- Agency: Victorian Multicultural Commission
- Agency Number: VA 1029
- Series Title: General Correspondence Files
- Series Number: VPRS 11790
- Unit Number: 87
- Period: 1983-1993 (with contents from 1947)
- Description: Overseas Adoption
- Access: Open
- Agency: Victorian Multicultural Commission
- Agency Number: VA 1029
- Series Title: General Correspondence Files
- Series Number: VPRS 11790
- Unit Number: 55
- Description: Inter-Country Adoption Programmes
- Access: Open