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List of Categories

Term commonly found on child welfare records
A phrase, word or abbreviation commonly used as a shorthand notation within child welfare records.
Absconding (1844 - )
Boarding Out (1890s - 1976)
Borderline defective (1920s - 1950s)
Bring up (1936? - ?)
Custodial Parent of a Child Migrant (1946 - ?)
Delinquent child
Feeble-minded (1920s - 1950s)
Guardian of a Child Migrant (1946 - ?)
Idiot (1920s - 1940s)
Imbecile (1920s - 1940s)
Juvenile offending
Kinship Care
Mentally deficient
Moral defective (1920s - 1950s)
Native Ward (1964? - 1968?)
Neglected Child
Out of Home Care
Permanency
Private child (1870s - 1970s)
Probation
Reformatory
Residential Care
Service Children
State Child
Substitute Care
Unmarried mothers
Ward
Youth Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (1985 - )
Training Centre
Tasmania only. Training institutions were institutions responsible for juvenile offenders or other children considered to require firm discipline.
Marribank (1952 - 1988)
Moola Bulla Station (1910 - 1954?)
Type of 'care'
A method of providing for children who are not living with their families.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
Aboriginal Education and Employment Hostels (1950 - )
Adoption (1896 - )
Boarding Out (1890s - 1976)
Cottage home
Farm school
Foster Care
Group Home
Hostel (1900s - )
Industrial school
Kinship Care
Orphanage
Reformatory
Scatter cottage (1970s - 1980s)

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