Creator: Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria [1946 - 1996]
2013.0115 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REFERENCE COLLECTION 1962-1988 Access: Open
This series comprises the reference collection of publications relating to social policy and social welfare in Australia in the period 1962-1988. Each file contains a specific publication or series of publications ranging from government studies and statistical data to professional studies and reports. Two files contain information gathered from the USA and the UK. The bulk of the series dates fr
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2013.0121 REFERENCE MATERIALS AND PUBLICATIONS 1918-1974 Access: Open
This series comprises three original series created by the RMIT Social Policy Archive from records transferred from the CWS. All the records in the series were retained for reference and most were published either as books or as publications of organisations. The series is collected into three sequences: (1) Collected annual reports from a variety of charitable institutions retained for reference
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2013.0120 SUBSTITUTE CARE FOR YOUTH PROJECT 1960-1971 Access: Open
This series comprises a report, in two parts, funded by the Myer Foundation and which addresses in part 1, the feasibility of using private families for substitute care for youth. The second part examines the needs of secondary school students requiring care away from home. In addition to two copies of each part of the report, the series contains various reference papers collected by the two auth
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2013.0114 CLIENT CASE RECORDS 1945-1985 Access: Restricted
This series comprises the case records of CWS clients, being primarily those people seeking relationship guidance counselling and including general counselling/support clients. Each client is an individual or couple and the file documents their interaction with CWS. Files are primarily made up of structured and unstructured case notes and letters, detailing psychological, financial, sexual and ot
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2013.0113 ADMINISTRATION AND CORRESPONDENCE FILES 1891-1988 Access: Restricted
This series consists of subject files created by the Citrizens Welfare Service, known at CWS as Resource Files. Generally they are arranged alphabetically by file title however some later transfers do not retain this arrangement. Some files are also labelled with A/1, A/2, A/3, B/1, B/2, B/3 style of code however this appears to have been superseded by the alphabetical arrangement. The files cont
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2013.0116 OUTWARD CORRESPONDENCE LETTER BOOKS 1957-1980 Access: Restricted
This series comprises carbon copies of outwards correspondence bound in volumes in date order; items in Unit 10 were not bound and are found in date order in files. The authors are primarily CWS executive management and social workers and the letters document all aspects of the organisation's administration. Most volumes contain an alphabetical index to addressees at the front and correspondence
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2013.0117 STAFFING RECORDS 1960-1985 Access: Restricted
This series is a composite of three series originally created by the RMIT Social Policy Archive from records received from the Citizens Welfare Service. The series comprises RSPA series 75, staff files of former CWS employees 1960-1981, RSPA series 76 records of CWS staff salaries 1962-1980 and RSPA series 56, minutes of (usually) fortnightly staff meetings 1977-1985. The staff files are files,
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2013.0118 GREIG SMITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY RECORDS 1971-1987 Access: Open
This series comprises the minutes of the committee of management meetings, financial records, correspondence, a published history and other official documents relating to the foundation and operation of the Greig Smith Memorial Library and related fund, established by the CWS to commemorate the life and work of Mr Stanley Greig Smith (1884-1970). The library was merged into the then Department of
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1980.0087 Records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria, first accession 1887-1968 Access: Part Restricted
This collection of Citizen's Welfare Service of Victoria records consists of Minute books of Executive Committee 1887-1968[gap]; the Child Protection Committee Minute book 1903-1923; the minute book of Victorian Provident Aid Society 1906-1961; and the minute book of the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners 1937-1943.
It also consists of one index of names and statistical particulars of cl
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1988.0058 Records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria 1987-1987 Access: Open
Paul Anderson: The Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria, 1887-1987; a Short story. Melb., 1987. 33 pp. by Paul Anderson: UniM Archives call number 361.809945 ANDE
The Greig Smith Social Work History Collection; A Bibliography and Guide. Melb., 1987. 81 pp. UniM Archives call number 061.361994 ANDE
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1989.0098 Records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria 1929-1955 Access: Restricted
Enquiries register, Citizens Advice Bureau, January 1951 to August 1955. Earlier pages relate to repatriation monies received and expended 1943, 1 vol. Also several interboard letters 1951 to 1954 now separately sleeved. The 1951 letter is addressed to Citizens Welfare Service. Victorian Institute of Almoners, outwards correspondence 18 June 1929 to 15 November 1933, 1 vol.
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1991.0153 Records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria 1900-1937 Access: Open
'Charity Review', journal of the Charity Organisation Society, vol.1,no.1 March 1900 - vol.XVI, no.1 March 1916 (incomplete series); 'The Other Half', journal of the Charity Organisation Society, no.1, June 1926 - vol.4 no.2, April 1937 (incomplete series).
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2013.0122 Administration records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria 1946-1987 Access: Open
This series is a composite of various administrative records taken into the RMIT Social Policy Archive from the Citizen Welfare Service of Victoria and previously arranged into separate series. During processing into UMA the series were combined into a single grouping based on their lack of other suitable arrangement and that they documented the administration of the CWS as opposed to its strictl
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2013.0119 Client records of the Citizens Welfare Service Of Victoria 1933-1987 Access: Restricted
This series is formed from a number of client focussed records created by the CWS and transferred to the RMIT Social Policy Archive prior to their subsequent transfer to the UMA. Originally, this series was broken into 7 series and during processing these were grouped together into this series due to their like function and information content. The series was taken from boxes numbered 159-160, 29
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