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Admitted Social Welfare Branch (1960? - 1970?), State of Victoria
Adolescent Community Placement
Adoption
Archival Item
Archival Series
Archives
Archivist
Babies' Home
Baby Farming (c. 1867 - )
Benevolent Asylum (c. 1850 - )
Boarding Out (c. 1872 - )
Bring Up
Care Leavers
Child Abuse
Child or young person in need of care and protection (1954 - 1978)
Child protection files (1989 - ), State of Victoria
Children in Koori society ( - 1835)
Children's village (c. 1870 - c. 1970)
City mission (c. 1854 - )
Community Service Organisation
Conditional Access to Records
Cottage home (c. 1870 - c. 1970)
Estray
Farm school
Female rescue (1850s - 1960s)
Finding Aid
Forgotten Australians (c. 2004 - )
Foster Care
Government Department
Holiday hosts
Home-Based Care
Hostel
Illegitimacy
In Moral Danger (c. 1954 - c. 1978)
Industrial school (c. 1864 - c. 1887)
Informal Placement of Aboriginal children
Juvenile offending
Juvenile school (1954 - c. 1961)
Kinship Care
Likely to Lapse (c. 1933 - c. 1978)
Looked After Children
Mental defective
Ministry
Mothercraft nurse
Neglected Child (c. 1864 - c. 1954)
No fixed place of abode
No visible means of support (1954 - )
Not provided with sufficient nursing (c. 1954 - )
Open Access to Records
Organisation
Orphan
Out of Home Care
Permanent Care
Physical Mental and Emotional Development in Jeopardy (1978 - 1989)
Protection of infants
Record
Records of the Stolen Generations
Records relating to children who were boarded out or placed in foster care
Reformatory (1864 - c. 1954)
Residential Care
Returned per Directors Orders
Select Committee
Siblings in Care
State Ward (c. 1880 - 1990s)
Statutory Client Information System
Stolen Generations (c. 1981 - )
Unmarried mothers
Vagrancy (c. 1864 - )
Voluntary placement (c. 1887 - )
Wardship files (1864 - 1989), State of Victoria
Youth justice centre (c. 2005 - )
Youth residential centre (c. 1989 - )
Youth Training Centre (c. 1961 - )
Youth welfare service (c. 1970 - ?)
Government Agency
A Government Agency is an organisation or service provider directly under the control of and funded by a state or federal government.
Aborigines Welfare Board (1957 - 1968)
Admitted Social Welfare Branch (1960? - 1970?), State of Victoria
Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of Aborigines (1860 - 1869)
Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1869 - 1900), Colony of Victoria
Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1900 - 1957), State Government of Victoria
Charities Board of Victoria (1923 - 1948)
Chief Secretary's Department (1855 - 1901), Colony of Victoria
Chief Secretary's Department (1901 - 1979), State Government of Victoria
Children's Welfare Department (1924 - 1960), State Government of Victoria
Community Services Victoria (1985 - 1992), State Government of Victoria
Corporate Integrity, Information and Resolutions Unit, Department of Human Services
Department for Neglected Children (1887 - 1900), Colony of Victoria
Department for Neglected Children (1901 - 1924), State Government of Victoria
Department of Community Welfare Services (1978 - 1985), State Government of Victoria
Department of Human Services (1995 - ), State Government of Victoria
Department of Industrial and Reformatory Schools (1864 - 1887), Colony of Victoria
Department of Mental Hygiene (1934 - 1944)
Department of Reformatory Schools (1887 - 1900), Colony of Victoria
Department of Reformatory Schools (1901 - 1954), State Government of Victoria
Government Welfare Training Council (1963 - )
Health and Community Services (1992 - 1995), State Government of Victoria
Hospitals and Charities Commission (1948 - 1978)
Inner Urban Regional Centre, State of Victoria
Inspector of Public Charities (c. 1880 - 1923)
Mental Health Authority (1962 - 1978), State of Victoria
Mental Hygiene Branch (1944 - 1959)
North Eastern Suburbs Regional Centre, State of Victoria
Northwest One Stop Welfare Centre, State of Victoria
Office of the Child Safety Commissioner (2004 - )
Public Record Office Victoria (1973 - )
Social Welfare Branch (1960 - 1970), State Government of Victoria
Social Welfare Department (1970 - 1978), State Government of Victoria
Government-run
An organisation or activity for which a government (usually State, Territory or Federal) is directly responsible.
Aboriginal Youth Support Service (c. 1973 - )
Acheron Youth Training Centre (c. 1966 - )
Allambie Reception Centre (1961 - 1990)
Ashendene Boys' Home (1966 - 1988)
Ballarat Industrial School (1869 - c. 1879)
Ballarat Reception Centre (1961 - 1978?)
Baltara Reception Centre (1968 - c. 1992)
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum Industrial School (1868 - 1885)
Bendigo Reception Centre (1965 - 1966)
The Deborah (1864 - 1873?)
Department of Mental Hygiene (1934 - 1944)
Family Group Home Program (1956 - 1990?), Children's Welfare Department
The Gables (1962 - c. 1985)
Geelong Industrial School (c. 1865 - )
Government Reformatory for Protestant Girls (1864? - ?)
Hawthorn Youth Welfare Service (1970 - )
Hillside Boys' Home (1959 - c. 1985)
Illoura Children's Home (1964 - 1984)
Inspector of Public Charities (c. 1880 - 1923)
Janefield Colony (1937 - 1996)
Kew Children's Cottages (1887 - 2008)
Lady Dugan Children's Home (1970 - 1976)
Langi Kal Kal Youth Training Centre (1965 - 1993)
Malmsbury Youth Training Centre (1965 - )
Melbourne Youth Justice Centre (1993 - )
Melbourne Youth Residential Centre (1999 - )
Mental Health Authority (1962 - 1978), State of Victoria
Mental Hygiene Branch (1944 - 1959)
Miralee Reception Centre (1963 - )
Moorakyne Hostel (1942? - c. 1988)
The Nelson (1868 - c. 1878)
Northcote Farm School (c. 1936 - 1979)
Nunawading Youth Residential Service (1991 - 1993?)
Pirra Girls' Home (1961 - c. 1980)
Pleasant Creek Colony (1937 - c. 2000)
Reformatory for Boys (1864 - 1893?)
Royal Park Depot (c. 1880 - 1955)
Royal Park Industrial School (1875 - c. 1887)
Sanatory Station (c. 1867 - c. 1868)
Sandhurst Boys' Home (1956? - )
The Sir Harry Smith (1865 - 1873)
The Success (1868 - 1873?)
Sunbury Industrial School (1865 - 1880?)
Sunshine Boys' Hostel (1959 - )
Sutton Grange (1957 - 1977)
Travancore (1933 - )
Turana (1955 - 1993)
Western Youth Welfare Service (1975 - ?), State of Victoria
Windsor Youth Welfare Service (1973 - )
Winlaton (1951 - c. 1991)