[UMA-SRE-20130129] Administrative records and publications of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria

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IdentifierUMA-SRE-20130129Extent11 Units, (2.2)Scope and ContentThis series comprises records documenting aspects of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria’s administration such as minutes and job descriptions and various publications it produced, such as the Youth Affairs Journal and the Youth Affairs Newsletter. The administrative records are comprised of two items of minutes of the Management Committee of the Council of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVic), and include papers on the establishment, role, aims and objectives of YACVic and copies of minutes of some Youth Council of Victoria (YCV) and YACVic Annual General Meetings. A single item being Minutes of YACVic Administration Sub-Committee Meetings and related papers, covering topics such as on-site Planning for Change Workshop, 1990 State-wide Workers With Youth Conference, organisation chart for Youth Affairs Division, Youth Programs Branch, Standing Strong Pilot Training Program, An Introduction to YACVic and YACVUCBITS, a newsletter of YACVic (February 1990 issue). Two items being the Youth Council of Victoria Annual Programme and Budget records comprising annual programmes and budgets for YACVic for the 1981-2 and 1984/5 financial years. The first item covers the reorganisation of the YCV into the YACVic, as well as the four Forum reports. The 1984/85 programme summarises YACVic's major activities in areas such as policy work, employment and training, youth welfare, education, entertainment and recreation, youth work training, housing, health and sexuality, income security and legal issues. A single item (file) comprising 42 original questionnaires, being survey records completed by organisations who use volunteers, conducted by the Youth Council of Victoria in connection with a Youth Organisation's Forum. Some correspondence from these organisations is present, including brochures outlining services, newsletters to their volunteers and an annual report. The correspondence indicates that the results of the survey were intended for compilation in a report on the state of volunteerism in Melbourne. A single item being job descriptions of Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVic) staff; Executive Director, Research/Resources Officer, Administrative Officer, Receptionist/Clerk, Office Secretary, Youth Development Office - Local Youth Affairs Council's Forum, Youth Development Officer - Young People's Forum. Units 6-11 are subject or working files created in the late 1970s to early 1980s and are both disordered and without apparent arrangement. The files document all aspects of the organisations operations from mundane internal matters to projects. It is possible that these files were not the creation of multiple individuals and rather were created and used by a single person but at this time there is insufficient information to determine this. The final, single administrative record in this collection is a diary with entries made by several Youth Affairs Council of Victoria staff members. Their initials include: LP, TC, WS, DH, NS, CJ and RN. The date of the diary is not given, however the entry from Tuesday November 3 indicates that Kensei won the Melbourne Cup in the year the diary was maintained (1987). Diary entries revolve around YAC Vic activities and concerns.The remainder of the collection is made up of various publications: “Youth in Society” describes itself as a bi-monthly "..interprofessional journal for everyone concerned with young people and young affairs." Earlier editions Nos 1-20, 1970-73, are held by La Trobe University Library. There are also three items of the “Youth Affairs Journal”. This journal was initiated through a grant from the Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation. This series comprises the first two issues with another issue provided by Mr David Maunders. The founders of the journal hoped to tackle youth issues in the written form and provide a means by which information and resources would be shared. 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 identified as series 8, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 91-93 and were combined into a single series during processing at the UMA. 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 item numbers and generally their order have been retained. See 2013.0130 for related records. Units 6-11 were held by RMIT but not accessioned at the time of transfer to UMA. It is likely these records are the working papers of an individual and were transferred to the SPA later than the earlier records.Collection CategoryCommunity and PoliticalAccess StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Series

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CreatorYouth Affairs Council of Victoria

Provenance

CreatorSocial Policy Archive

Dates

Datec.1972-c.1990

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Previous System ID2013.0129Descriptive NoteNot listed

University of Melbourne Archives

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[UMA-SRE-20130129] Administrative records and publications of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria