2013.0140
ADMINISTRATION FILES [1972-1989]
Creator(s): 
Victorian Youth Advocacy Network [1985-],
 Social Policy Archive [1993-1997]

This series comprises two sequences of subject files containing documents relating to the administration and operations of the Victorian Youth Advocacy Network. The first three Units contain administrative files, two files relate to induction for staff and management; one file is title “membership 1993” and despite the date, appears to relate to a span beginning in the late 1980s. Two files relate to management and sub-committee meeting minutes and the last box contains a file relating to Community Health Centres and two untitled files.  These files were separated from the rest of the series for reasons currently unknown. Units 4-26 contain files transferred in a single sequence and these files, documenting all aspects of the organisations operations, are in good order though without any apparent system of arrangement. The files contain information such as the filling of vacancies, minutes of meetings, reports on projects, funding bids to various agencies, dealings with different bodies including government departments and councils, and documents relating to outreach and advocacy issues.  Files are in their original coloured and titled folders, often titles are annotated or written over after the original was obliterated with “liquid paper” correction fluid. Some files appear disordered and may have been added to the collection from different sources when the files were being prepared for transfer. The series was transferred from the RMIT Social Policy Archive where it had been transferred in the 1990s as part of a collection strategy to capture the records of community sector organisations operating in the welfare sector. Within the SPA, these records were not identified as a series and appear to have been waiting processing when the archives closed. It was the practice of the SPA to item number material in order of its receipt irrespective of the series it was later allocated; these items have not been numbered.

26 Units, (5.1m)
Community and Political, organisations