Street address:
Level 1, 45 Wakefield Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address:
GPO Box 292
Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: 8207 0060
Fax: 8207 0066
Email: adoptions@dfc.sa.gov.au

Home » Families and young people » Adoption » Past adoption

The Department for Families and Communities (DFC) is now the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI). The department is currently reviewing its online information and updates will be implemented soon.
You can still find departmental information using the search function on this site. For more information about South Australian government services please visit www.sa.gov.au.

Historical information about homes or institutions (South Australia)

Last Updated Mar 2010

Many people who apply to us for information about their past or that of their family members, ask about details of homes or institutions that once cared for children and young people in South Australia. Most of these institutions are closed and in many cases the buildings no longer exist. Some information may be available about them, although much has been lost over time.

Some of the South Australian homes and institutions in which adopted people were born are listed here.

Details about these and many others can be found in Finding Your Own Way, an SA Link-UP "self-help" guide to tracing family and existing records of South Australian children's homes and institutions that were located as at December 2004.