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Term commonly found on child welfare records
A phrase, word or abbreviation commonly used as a shorthand notation within child welfare records.
Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (1987 - )
Aboriginal School (1915 - 1972)
Affiliation (c. 1896 - )
BFA, Baby for Adoption
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Dependent children (c. 1883 - )
Dependent Children Branch (1940s - 1980s)
Fieldwork (c. 1950 - )
Special Field Squad (c. 1950 - c. 1983)
Supply Authority
Training Institution
Training institutions were institutions responsible for juvenile offenders or other children considered to require firm discipline.
Brougham (1943 - 1993)
Daruk (1940s)
Female School of Industry (1827 - 1926)
Good Samaritan Training Centre (1948 - 1982)
Government Agricultural Farm, Scheyville (1905 - 1940)
Hillside Training Home for Girls (1920 - ?)
Institution for Boys, Tamworth (1948 - 1976)
Jubilee Home (1887 - 1960?)
Kamballa (c. 1974 - 1983)
Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants (1870 - 1909)
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys (1906 - 1947)
Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947 - 1976)
Mount Penang Training School for Boys (1946 - 1987)
Myee (1926 - 1970s)
Parramatta Girls Industrial School (1887 - 1975)
Probationary Farm Home, Branxton (1890s - 1915?)
Probationary Farm Home, Rydalmere (1891 - 1894)
Reiby Training School (1973 - )
Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys, Yanco (1930s - c. 1945)
'Sobraon' Training Ship (1892 - 1911)
Taldree (1974 - 1980)
Tallimba Home (1980s)
Thornleigh Training School for Girls (1946 - 1962)
Training School for Midwifery Nurses (c. 1911 - 1976)
Yawarra Training School (1969 - 1979)
Type of Record
The different types of documents that have been, and are still, kept to record information about children in 'care'. These may be maintained by a government or non-government agency, or held in an archival repository, library or in private hands.
Aboriginal Boys' Training Home, Kinchela, case papers (1944 - 1967), Aborigines Welfare Board
Applications for certificates of exemption (1948 - 1959), Aborigines Welfare Board
Certificates of Exemption (1949 - 1954), Aborigines Welfare Board
Correspondence files (1949 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
Dependent children registers (1883 - 1923)
Histories of girls and boys unattached and for whom forms have not been prepared (c. 1930 - c. 1938), Aborigines Welfare Board
Indexes to minute books (1946 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
Ledgers (trust account) (1897 - 1922), Aborigines Welfare Board
Minute Books (1890 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
Photographs (c. 1924 - 1961), Aborigines Welfare Board
Registers of committals (1907 - 1921), Mittagong Farm Home for Boys
Registers of inmates (1852 - 1915), Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children
Salary registers (trust account) (1922 - 1934), Aborigines Welfare Board
Special Bundles (1920 - 1957), Aborigines Welfare Board