Description | Records: - Entry number (book contains 2312 entries) - Details of child: name, date of birth, sex, religious persuasion. - Details of foster parents: name, address. - Care authority or voluntary organisation by whom boarded out: date (these appear to start in the 1950s and run through to 1979, although there is one entry for 1947) and authority (note that these are not just Aberdeen City, there are a range of local authorities across Scotland listed). At entry 1236 there is a note ""As from 1st September only [1965?] other Authorities children entered in Book" - this includes Aberdeen charities. - Date boarding out ceased. - Reason for cessation. - Remarks.
Entries are broadly chronological, but appear to have been entered in batches alphabetically rather than in strict chronological sequence.
Some water damage at back of volume. |
Administrative History | Probably maintained by Town Council's Children's Department, then Social Work Department, and from 1975 the Regional Council's Social Work team in Aberdeen. |