VPRS 18211 Register of Family Welfare Transfers, from Family to Youth Welfare (Children's Court Advisory Service)

This series is described according to the title written on the cover as: Register of Family Welfare Transfers, From Family to Youth. VPRS 16747 contains the Youth Welfare Division case files to which this register refers. See that series for details of the administrative processes that created the files.This series records Youth Welfare file numbers which were allocated at the time the case was transferred from Family Welfare to the Youth Welfare Division. It is not certain but is possible that this series is the register from which the youth welfare file numbers for transfers were allocated. There is also a series of index cards included in VPRS 16025 to which these entries relate.It is not clear as to who created the records . However, given that the relationship this series has to the files in VPRS 16747, the records seem to have been compiled by the Children's Court Advisory Unit.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.In the P1 consignment, the extant volume records information in columns that vary over the length of the volume. At the tops of pages (or at the beginning of each relevant section) there appears either the letter A or B together with two digits, representing the financial year in which the transfer of responsibility took place. For example, for the financial year 1971/1972, all transfers in the period 1 July to 31 December 1971 are on pages headed A72; all transfers between 1 January and 30 June 1972 are on pages headed B72.Column headings at the beginning of entries in the volume are:- YW [Youth Welfare] NoThis column contains a running number that commenced from 1000 each 1 July. When combined with the page header (e.g A72 or B72) the running number becomes a youth welfare file number that appears in other records in various formats including A72/1010, A721010 and A72.1010. Files with these numbers can be found in VPRS 16747.The note to VPRS 16747 provides that there were different types of youth welfare files created. Those created in the block of numbers 1000 to 1999 identified children transferred into the Youth Welfare division from the Family Welfare Division.- FW [Family Welfare] No.This column contains a five digit number that is the ward number for the subject. The number may identify files in VPRS 10071.- Name- DOB- FileThis column is sometimes empty and sometimes contains a tick against the entry. It is not present throughout the volume. It presumably was used to indicate that some action associated with the file or files that existed for the client had been completed.- ED [Expiry Date?]Dates recorded in this column are 18 years later than the clients' dates of birth, that is, the date on which the client would turn 18 years of age.- HF (No entries observed)- SW [Social Workers]This column contains initials or names of social workers to whom client files were referred.- TransferredThis column contains the date on which the client, case or file was transferred from family to youth welfare services.- 25CThere are no entries in this column which is discontinued after a few pages.Entries in the volume in the P1 consignment commence at WF number 1050 (A70.1050) so it is likely that an earlier volume existed.The last entry in the volume is number B73.1068 dated 3 March 1973. At least half of the volume after this point contains blank pages. There is no indication where, or if, subsequent entries were recorded.At the back of the volume are three pages that contain information.The last page is headed, beginning July 1980 / June 81 167(1) and has entries in columns headed Name; DOB; Sentence (all entries are for periods of imprisonment); Date of Transfer; No (which contains the client's ward number).The second last page, headed Sect 96 transfers, has two entries with minimal information.Ten pages back into the volume are seven entries headed, Family welfare admissions to YTC which record client name, date of birth and from where the client was admitted.