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NTRS 3755 Correspondence files, annual single number

Recording Agency:	Welfare Branch (695); Welfare Division (696); Department of Community Development (562); Department of Health and Community Services [I] (570)
Date Range:	1945 - 1994
Access:	Agreement Pending
Location:	Darwin (NTAC)
Legacy Series Id:	F941

How to Use the Records

An index relating to client information contained in these files was completed in 2014. The date range of the series reflects the former practice of agency staff adding notes to files when they were withdrawn from the Northern Territory Archives Service to follow up on external enquiries.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 administration files and client files of the Welfare Branch and Social Development Branch in the Department of the Northern Territory, registered during 1959-1978. Individual client files were maintained, including: Aboriginal people declared to be Wards under the Wards Ordinance; emergency assistance to single men, deserted wives or widows, and pensioners; foster and/or adoption arrangements for child clients; guardianship of adults and children and arrangements for out of home care or institutionalisation; and client complaints and/or enquiries. Some files registered during 1974-1976 relate to services provided to survivors of Cyclone Tracy, and refugees from Timor and Vietnam. One file relates to a Former Child Migrant from Malta (file no.74/378, box no.233). Administration files relate to subjects such as: investigation of offences under, or breaches of, the Wards Ordinance; the inspection, investigation of complaints, and registration of, child minding centres; correspondence associated with budget estimates and economic data, staff salary and conditions; legislation from the Northern Territory and other jurisdictions; correspondence with other government departments; regional grants; and, returns from institutions including child welfare homes, and prisons and gaols. Emergency assistance was provided to people in various circumstances including the survivors of a tornado in the Nightcliff area of Darwin in 1960 (file no.60/5012, box no.17); nine Indonesian men and women shipwrecked on Bathurst Island in the same year (file no.60/5013, box no.17); and five Indonesian sailors found in the vicinity of Millingimbi in 1963 (file no.63/58, box no.39). Also includes files relating to services provided in cases of emergency, for example Cyclone Tracy in 1974, and the evacuees sent to Darwin in the aftermath of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 (file nos 76/1, 76/2; box no.239). Regional grants files may contain general corres

Recordkeeping System

Annual single number

Recording Agency

Period	Title	Agency Id
1955 - 1970	Welfare Branch	695
1970 - 1972	Welfare Division	696
1978 - 1987	Department of Community Development	562
1987 - 1994	Department of Health and Community Services [I]	570

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
1945 - 1994	Master index to correspondence files, annual single number [NTRS 3755]	NTRS 3762
1945 - 1994	Preservation copy of index to correspondence files, annual single number [NTRS 3755]	NTRS 3763
1945 - 1994	Reference copy of index to correspondence files, annual single number [NTRS 3755]	NTRS 3764

Related Series

Transfer Date	Series	Series Id
1945 - 1994	Correspondence files relating to alleviation of distress with 'A' prefix	NTRS 3690
1945 - 1994	Correspondence files relating to children with 'C' prefix	NTRS 3756
1952 - 1994	Correspondence files relating to state children with 'SC' prefix	NTRS 3757
1956 - 1994	Correspondence files with 'SD' (Social Development) prefix	NTRS 3758
1969 - 1983	Dundas House admissions register	NTRS 3907
1977 - 1979	Dundas House report books	NTRS 3906
1978 - 1978	Dundas House treatment book	NTRS 3908
1950 - 1994	Fostering files with 'F' prefix	NTRS 3754

Consignments

Consignment Id	Number of Units	Contents Date Range	Public Access	Description
P0001	336	1945 - 1994	Agreement Pending
P0002	74	1949 - 1989	Agreement Pending	D3: Date of birth; D4: previous file number