VPRS 18213 Register of Orders and Reports (Children's Court Advisory Service)

This series consists of volumes which detail Orders issued by the Children's Court as well as various report types submitted to the Court.The Register of Orders and Reports was part of the administrative interface between the court and clients, created to manage the delivery of youth support and correctional services administered by the Department of Community Services (VA 2633).The following abbreviations are used in the volumes to describe types of orders and reports:- CCP Probation Order- SPO Supervision Order- PSR Pre Sentencing Report- PAR Youth Parole- POR Parole Office Report- INS Interstate SPO.Probation orders given by the Children's Court required that the young person be placed under the supervision of a probation officer appointed by the department. The young person was to reside with the person specified by the court as the fit and proper guardian willing to undertake the care of the young person. The parent or guardian of the young person was to permit the probation officer to visit and the period of probation must not exceed three years or the young person's eighteenth birthday. The length of probation orders could be decreased with the advice of the probation officer in consultation with the sentencing magistrate.Supervision orders differed from probation orders in that the probation officer appointed to supervise a young person could give any reasonable direction in the interests of the welfare of the young person to the parents or guardians of the young person. These provisions would be given in writing to the parents or guardians. If there were a failure by the parents or guardians to fulfil these provisions, or if the young person were living under unsatisfactory conditions, the Court could cancel the supervision order and deal with the young person in any manner it saw fit.Information recorded in the early Register of Orders and Reports from 1985 includes:- Date- Surname- Given Name- Initial Order:- Additional Orders- Region (location of the court)From 29 January 1986, information recorded includes:- Date received- File Number(File numbers are in the format, for example, 100-1-123, which are file numbers allocated in the Statutory Client Information System (SCIS) that was introduced in 1986. Some early file numbers are in the format 5-123 or 5/12, which were numbers from the previous Correctional Field Service numbering system)- Name- DOB- Order Date- Period (of Sentence/Order)- Court- New Order- Returned Order- Region.The end date for this series is not known but it may be as late as 1992 when the Client and Services Information System (CASIS) was introduced.