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List of Categories

Glossary Term
An entry in the Find and Connect glossary.
Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (1984 - )
Aboriginal placement (1984 - )
Access conditions
Admitted to the care of the Department under Section 35 (1960 - 1997)
Adolescent placement
Adoption
Almoner
Apprenticeship (c. 1833 - c. 1945)
Approved agency (1988 - )
Approved children's home (1960 - 1997)
Approved children's home (employment) (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Approved children's home (high school rate) (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Approved children's home (primary school rate) (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Approved children's home extended education (1960 - 1985?)
Approved institution (1949 - 1976)
Archival Collection
Archival item
Archival series
Archives
Archivist
Assisted employment (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
At home while still a ward
Baby farmer
Board (Special) (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Board 1 (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Board 2 (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Board 3 (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Boarding school (1983 - 1985)
Boarding-out (1873 - c. 1970)
Certified Children's Homes (1935 - 1960)
Child Care Association (c. 1970 - )
Child evacuee (1940 - c. 1945)
Child Guidance Clinics (c. 1950 - c. 1975)
Child migrant over the age of 18 (1960 - c. 1980)
Child of the state (1918 - 1960)
Child rescue
Child welfare officer (c. 1960 - )
Children's court (1905 - )
Clean break theory
Closed access records
Committed to an institution (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Conditional access records
Cottage homes (1943 - )
Day service employment (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Declared a ward and committed to an institution (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Declared by court to be a ward of state (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Departmental residential care (1935 - c. 2010)
Discharge by Age (1960 - 1997)
Discharged (adopted) (1960 - 1997)
Discharged by Minister's authority (1960 - 1997)
Domestic Service Assistance Scheme (1947 - c. 1980)
Emergency care (c. 1976 - )
Employed ward trust account (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Employment (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Estray
Eugenics (c. 1900 - c. 1940)
Extended guardianship (1960 - 1997)
Family Assistance Scheme (1980 - )
Family group home (c. 1980 - c. 2009)
Family support
Farm school
Feeble-minded (1920 - 1963)
File number
Finding Aid
Forced adoption (c. 1940 - c. 1970)
Forgotten Australians (2004 - )
Foster care (c. 1955 - )
Friends (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Government department
Guardianship Review Committee (1977 - )
Half-caste
Holiday (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Holiday placement
Home help (1947 - )
Home-based care
Homemaker Service (1976 - )
Honorary child welfare officer (1960? - 1990?)
Hospital (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Hostel (c. 1940 - c. 1995)
ILP (1907 - 1935)
Independent living unit (c. 1983 - 1995?)
Inmate (1935 - 1970?)
Inmate Ashley Home for Boys (1960 - c. 1999)
Inmate receiving home (1960 - 1980)
Inmate receiving home (employment) (c. 1960 - c. 1980)
Inmate Weeroona Girls' Training Centre (1960 - 1979)
Inmate Wybra Hall (1960 - 1988)
Inquiring officer (1874 - 1912)
Inspecting nurse (1911 - c. 1940)
Inspector (1915 - )
Intellectually disabled (c. 1980 - )
Interim Order (1960 - )
Invalid depot (1827 - c. 1910)
Item number
Juvenile offending
Kinship care
Legal supervision (c. 1960 - )
Legal supervision (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Life story work
Looked after children
Lying-in home
Maladjusted child (1950? - 1990?)
Mental Hospital (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Mentally defective (c. 1920 - c. 1960)
Mentally deficient (c. 1920 - c. 1963)
Mentally retarded (c. 1950 - c. 1980)
Mentally subnormal (c. 1920 - 1980?)
Ministry
Missing (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Moral danger (c. 1940 - c. 1997)
Moral imbecile (1920 - 1963)
Mothercraft nurse (1947 - )
Neglected child (c. 1867 - )
Non-State records
Official visitor (1965 - )
Open access records
Organisation
Orphan
Orphanage (1828 - 2006)
Out of home care
Parent following (1952 - 1976)
Permanent placements
Preventive Payment Scheme (1976 - 1980)
Preventive supervision (c. 1960 - 1983)
Preventive supervision (c. 1960 - c. 1997)
Probation officer (1920 - )
Provisional discharge (1960 - 1997)
Re-allocation of wages (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Receiving home (1898 - c. 1980)
Receiving Home Keeper (1898 - c. 1980)
Record
Remanded for any purpose (1960 - 1997)
Remanded for observation (1960 - 1997)
Rescue home (1856 - c. 1940)
Residential care
Respite care (c. 1975 - )
Returned (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Select Committee
Series number
Service Employer (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Service employment (trust account) (c. 1960 - c. 1975)
Shared care (1990? - )
Siblings in care
Single mother receiving outdoor relief (c. 1960 - 1973)
Single mothers
Socially maladjusted (c. 1965 - c. 1990)
Special Contract Care (1985 - )
State ward (1896 - 1997)
Stolen generations (1981 - )
Street children (c. 1890 - c. 2000)
Temporary admission (1960 - 1997)
Therapeutic residential care
Training
Transferred (c. 1960 - c. 1990)
Transition to independent living
Truancy
Uncontrollable child (1896 - 1997)
Under-Secretary (1882 - 1946)
Vagrancy (1803 - )
Welfare kids (c. 1940 - c. 1980)
Women's Refuge (c. 1970 - )
Young person (1997 - )
Youth Migrant (1948 - 1964)
Government Agency
A Government Agency is an organisation or service provider directly under the control of and funded by a state or federal government.
Adoption Information Service (1988 - )
Archives Office of Tasmania (1965 - 2011)
Central Board of Health (1885 - 1903)
Central Committee for Boarding-Out Destitute Children (1881 - 1896)
Charitable Grants Department (1873 - 1934)
Child Protection Assessment Board (1975 - 1991)
Child Protection Board (1991 - )
Child Welfare Advisory Council (1960 - )
Child Welfare Division (c. 1953 - 1980)
Children of the State Department (1918 - 1935)
Civil Service Board of Tasmania (1900 - 1905)
Commissioner for Children (c. 2000 - )
Convict Department (1818 - 1877)
Department for Community Welfare (1983 - 1989)
Department of Community and Health Services (1993 - 1998)
Department of Community Services (1989 - 1993)
Division of Mental Health (1956 - 1963)
Division of Mental Hygiene (1945 - 1956)
Guardianship Board (1964 - )
Guardianship Review Committee (1977 - )
Homemaker Service (1976 - )
LINC Tasmania (2011 - )
Mental Deficiency Board (1920 - 1964)
The Mental Health Services Commission (1968 - 1993)
National Library of Australia (1901 - )
Neglected Children's Department (1896 - 1918)
North-West Regional Resource Unit (1986 - )
Public Service Appeals Board
Public Service Board (1905 - 1918)
Public Service Commissioner (1918 - )
Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages (1989 - )
Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (1838 - 1882)
Registrar-General's Division (1972 - 1989)
Relief Division (1953? - 1980?)
Social Policy Planning Unit (1975 - )
Social Services Department (1934 - 1961)
Social Welfare Department (1961 - 1983)
Southern Regional Resource Centre (1985 - )
State Psychological Clinic (1922 - 1964)
Tasmania Police (2004 - )
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (2011 - )
Government Department
A government department is a group of public servants organised to administer a particular area of government activity, under the control of a minister.
Department of Health and Human Services (1998 - )
Department of Health Services (1956 - 1993?)
Education Department (1885 - )
General Registry Department (1924 - 1959)
Police Department (1898 - 2004)
Public Health Department (1904 - 1956)
Registrar-General's Department (1959 - 1972)
Statistical and General Registry Department (1882 - 1924)
Government-run
An organisation or activity for which a government (usually State, Territory or Federal) is directly responsible.
Abermere Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 1995?)
Abermere Hostel (1965 - 1976)
Abermere Receiving Home (1977 - 1980)
Aboriginal Family Group Home (c. 1975 - 1996)
After Care School, New Town (1942? - 1957?)
Ashley Home for Boys (1922 - 1999)
Ashley Youth Detention Centre (1999 - )
Bevis Marks Family Group Home (1980 - 1985)
Bevis Marks Independent Living Unit (1988 - 1995?)
Bevis Marks Receiving Home (1973 - c. 1980)
Binnowee Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 1995?)
Binnowee Receiving Home (1972? - c. 1980)
Boys' Reformatory (1869 - 1876)
Boys' Training School (1884 - 1926)
Campbell Street Gaol (1821 - 1960)
Casablanca Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 1995?)
Casablanca Receiving Home (1967? - c. 1980)
Cascades House of Correction (1856 - c. 1877)
Cascades Probation Station (1848 - 1855)
Connellen Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
Contagious Diseases Hospital (1879 - 1900)
Cornwall Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
Cottage Home (1943 - c. 1950)
Eastville Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
Emergency care (c. 1976 - )
Family Assistance Scheme (1980 - )
Female Factory, Cascades (1827 - 1853)
Gilburn Receiving Home (1959 - c. 1980)
Glynhyfryd Family Group Home (1984? - 1993?)
Hagley Farm School (1855 - )
Haldon Family Group Home (c. 1985 - 2000?)
Hobart Receiving Home (1898 - 1958)
Independent Living Unit (1983? - 1990?)
Kanangra Hostel (1975 - )
Kanangra Receiving Home (1958 - c. 1975)
Kiah Family Group Home (1990? - 2005?)
Lachlan Park Hospital (1937 - 1968)
Laroona Family Group Home (1986? - c. 2009)
Launceston Gaol (1827 - 1917)
Lismore Receiving Home (1973 - 1979)
Lucinda Family Group Home (1980 - 2003)
Lucinda Resource Centre (1980 - 1986)
Lunatic Asylum (1929 - 1937)
Lunatic Asylum, New Norfolk (1827 - 1859)
Lying-in Home, Cascades (1888 - 1900)
Malmesbury Family Group Home (1980 - 2009)
Malmesbury Girls' Home (1950 - 1962)
Malmesbury Receiving Home (c. 1962 - c. 1980)
Mardon Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 2000?)
Mardon Receiving Home (1971? - c. 1980)
Mental Diseases Hospital, New Norfolk (1915 - 1937)
Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospital (1934 - 1968)
Miranda Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
Miroma Receiving Home (1969? - 1979)
Monomeeth Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
Mosley Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 1991)
Mosley Receiving Home (1973 - 1980)
Mothercraft Home (1925 - c. 1988)
Naramarrindi Family Group Home (1980? - 2005?)
New Town Charitable Institution (1879 - 1912)
New Town Infirmary (1912 - 1934)
New Town Rest Home (1934 - 1936)
Northern Regional Resource Centre (1983 - 1990?)
Omaru Hostel (c. 1965 - c. 1974)
Omaru Receiving Home (1910? - c. 1965)
Parenting Centre (c. 1990 - )
Point Puer (1834 - 1848)
Preventive Payment Scheme (1976 - 1980)
Regional Resource Centre (c. 1980 - )
Risdon Prison (1960 - )
Rochebank Family Group Home (c. 1980 - 2009)
Rochebank Hostel (c. 1950 - c. 1980)
Royal Derwent Hospital (1968 - 2000)
Sight Saving School (1940 - 1980)
Special Contract Care (1985 - )
St John's Park (1936 - 1994)
State Library of Tasmania (1849 - )
Summerhill Family Group Home (c. 1985 - c. 1990)
Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (1985 - 1989)
Talire School (1950 - 1980?)
Weeroona Girls' Training Centre (1959 - 1979)
West Winds Boys' Home (1967 - 1983)
Willowbend Family Group Home (1990? - 2005?)
Wingfield School (1942? - 1965?)
Woodbridge-West Winds Receiving Home (1963 - 1967)
Woodlands Family Group Home (c. 1985 - 2000?)
Wybra Hall (1956 - 1988)