| Description | Children's home records, including:
Admission and discharge registers 1984-2015
Log books 2009, 2014-2016
Young people's personal files 2000s-2014
Adult care files (8 individuals)
Residents' meetings books 1992-1999, 2007-2008
Staffing management records including staff register 2009-2014, Staff meeting records 1984-1985 and 2015, timesheets 2000-2012, rotas 2011-2012, annual leave records 2009-2010, and one staff member's personal file
Policies, guidance documents, library materials 1983-2015
Household management records including:
Significant events forms/books 2011-2015
Accident book 1992-2015
Complaints book 2009-2010
Visitors' books 1988-2015
Communications books 2013-2015
Medication records 1987-2015
Unauthorised absences book 1992-2000, 2008-2015
Signing in/out book 2011-2015
Sanctions/Restorative action records 1990-2015
Property maintenance records 2005-2015
Financial records, 1982-2016, including budgeting, credit card records and cash books |
| Administrative History | Owner: Derbyshire County Council
Area: Erewash
Opened: 1970
Closed: 2018
Originally proposed in 1968 for 12 working boys; approval for 12 working boys and residential staff in May 1970 when it was first named Albany House and called AH Family Centre. Albany House provided residential accommodation for 12 adolescents over school age in 1973. There were 6 long-term placements provided in March 1997. From 01/04/2013 name changed to Evergreen. The home was then refurbished, providing 5 bedrooms.
Units: No units. Had 5 bedrooms but as at February 2016 housed only 2 residents.
Clientele: As at 2016, the home accommodated children aged 11-17 for medium to long term.
This home was closed in 2018. See "Ilkeston children's home axed because Derbyshire County Council '˜doesn't need it'", Ilkeston Advertiser website, 25 Oct 2018. |
| Custodial History | These records were transferred to Derbyshire Record Office in October 2016. |