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Temporary Care

Temporary Care is a term to describe the short-term, emergency, respite or crisis accommodation of children and young people. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary

Therapeutic Residential Care

Therapeutic Residential Care (or TRC) describes placements for children and young people in an environment to help them recover from the effects of trauma from abuse or neglect. In these placements, the child or young person lives with carers with specialised training and accesses specialist therapists. Click here to see the full Find & Connect…

Training Centre

The term Training Centre, in Victoria, described an institution for people with an intellectual disability. Its use dates back to the Mental Health Act 1959. Before the passage of the 1959 act, institutions for children with intellectual disabilities were known as ‘colonies’. Training centres are not to be confused with Day Training Centres, another type…

Training Home

Training Homes (also known as Training Schools) were institutions where children and young people could learn habits of hard work and respectability, as well as skills suited to the workforce. In the early twentieth century, the work skills usually involved domestic service for girls and farm labour for boys. Later on the occupations considered suitable…

Truancy

Truancy means intentional absences from schooling. Truancy became an offence when education became compulsory (under state education laws). This meant children charged with truancy could be arrested by police or truancy officers and committed to institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. Magistrates could also fine parents for allowing a child to truant, and order…