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History While Under Care - Card Index (R1077471) 1950 - 1970

Item ID Agency Series Accession Record group Box / Item Sep Record no. Part Alternative no. Record type
R1077471 AADK 7919 W4883 13 / text



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RECORD SERIES period responsible
7919
Child Welfare Assorted Indexes more detail…
unknown - unknown

CONTROLLING AGENCY / DEPARTMENT period responsible
ABZH
Department of Social Welfare, New Plymouth District Office more detail…

Established when the Social Security Department and Child Welfare Division of the Department of Education (New Plymouth offices) merged to provide co-ordinated social services. Functions included responsibility for all payments of Social Security benefits and War Pensions; counselling and advice; care and welfare of young children; guidance and supervision of older 'at risk' children; adoption advice; placement of children in foster families; and the administration of homes and institutions for children.


1972 - 1992
ABZI
Department of Education, Child Welfare Division, New Plymouth District Office more detail…

The principal functions of the New Plymouth District Office were responsibility for the maintenance, care, control and education of children under the special protection of the state in the New Plymouth region. A major portion of its work concerned investigation of all cases coming before the region's Children's Courts. Other responsibilities included supervision of all children under the age of six years living apart from their parents, and of children and young persons placed under the care of child welfare officers by the Children's Courts; providing for the care and education of handicapped children; investigation of and provision of assistance to illegitimate children; overseeing the placement of children in foster homes, and applications for adoption and widows pensions; administration of short-term facilities for the remand, classification and observation of children; and the guardianship and care of immigrant refugee children following World War II, including those from Great Britain and Poland.


1950 - 1972
AADK
Department of Social Welfare, Corporate Office more detail…

The Department of Social Welfare was established on 1 April 1972 when the Social Security Department and the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Education merged.


1997 - 1997
ABZF
New Zealand Income Support Service, Wanganui District Office more detail…
1993? - 1997
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Version Number: 2
Date Approved: 18/05/2004