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NTRS 3754 Fostering files with 'F' prefix

Recording Agency:	Welfare Branch (695); Welfare Division (696); Department of Community Development (562); Department of Health and Community Services [I] (570); Territory Health Services (687)
Date Range:	1950 - 1999
Access:	Agreement Pending
Location:	Darwin (NTAC)
Legacy Series Id:	F940

How to Use the Records

An index relating to client information contained in these files was completed in 2012.The date range of the series reflects the former practice of agency staff adding notes to files when they were withdrawn from the Northern Territory Archives Service to follow up on external enquiries.

Function / Content

This series consists of files relating to fostering and/or adoption of children. The files were created to capture applications from prospective foster/adoptive parents and may include assessments of the applicants, correspondence, file notes, approval or denial of applications, fostering agreements, copies of affidavits and birth parent consent documents prepared for legal adoptions heard in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Annotations appear on the file when an adoption order was made by the court. The files may include details of the baby or child to be fostered and/or adopted such as original birth name, date of birth, and birth mother name and/or birth father name. Sometimes files include correspondence regarding an external agency's role in the transport of infants to adoptive parents in the Northern Territory with the cooperation of the Welfare section. The major external agencies include the New South Wales and Victorian branches of the Catholic Adoption Agency and the Kate Cock's Memorial Babies Home in South Australia. Files also contain details relating to the movement of children from or to other states which may be for the purpose of relocation to interstate foster parents or transfer to welfare, medical or community institutions. In some cases the files contain records of the transfer of guardianship of a child from the Northern Territory to another state. In other cases the files contain records of children who may have been placed for adoption with parents who later relocated to other countries (including Great Britain, USA, The Netherlands/Holland, and New Zealand) or children brought in from other countries (including Vietnam, China, and Sri Lanka) to be adopted in the Northern Territory. Up to 1974, the Northern Territory arranged for, and placed, children to be adopted by parents living in Papua New Guinea.

Recordkeeping System

Single number, with 'F' (fostering) prefix

Recording Agency

Period	Title	Agency Id
1955 - 1970	Welfare Branch	695
1970 - 1972	Welfare Division	696
1978 - 1987	Department of Community Development	562
1987 - 1995	Department of Health and Community Services [I]	570
1995 - 1999	Territory Health Services	687

Agency Responsible

Period	Title	Agency Id
1955 - 1970	Welfare Branch	695
1970 - 1972	Welfare Division	696
1978 - 1987	Department of Community Development	562
1987 - 1995	Department of Health and Community Services [I]	570
1995 - 2001	Territory Health Services	687
2001 - 2008	Department of Health and Community Services [II]	571
2016 - 2020	Territory Families	1291

Controlling Series

Period	Series	Series Id
1950 - 1999	Master index to correspondence files relating to fostering with 'F' prefix	NTRS 3759
1950 - 1999	Preservation copy of index to correspondence files relating to fostering with 'F' prefix	NTRS 3760
1950 - 1999	Reference copy of index to correspondence files relating to fostering with 'F' prefix	NTRS 3761

Related Series

Transfer Date	Series	Series Id
1950 - 1996	Correspondence files relating to alleviation of distress with 'A' prefix	NTRS 3690
1950 - 1999	Correspondence files relating to children with 'C' prefix	NTRS 3756
1952 - 1995	Correspondence files relating to state children with 'SC' prefix	NTRS 3757
1956 - 1996	Correspondence files with 'SD' (Social Development) prefix	NTRS 3758
1950 - 1994	Correspondence files, annual single number	NTRS 3755
1969 - 1983	Dundas House admissions register	NTRS 3907
1977 - 1979	Dundas House report books	NTRS 3906
1978 - 1978	Dundas House treatment book	NTRS 3908
1967 - 1980	Register relating to foster parents and children	NTRS 3882

Consignments

Consignment Id	Number of Units	Contents Date Range	Public Access	Description
P0001	58	1950 - 1999	Agreement Pending
P0002	1	1963 - 1978	Agreement Pending	Missing files relocated and new consignment registered.