Browse Categories - A
List of Categories
- Adolescent Care
- Adolescent Care refers to models of out-of-home care geared to the needs of young people, including Adolescent Units, Early Adolescent Units, Teenage Units and Adolescent Community Placement. Programs for adolescents became more common from the 1980s.
- Albany Boys' Hostel (c. 1970 - 1978)
- Albany Youth Support Association Inc. (c. 1980 - )
- Anglicare Youth House (1994 - 1995?)
- Armadale Youth Accommodation Service (1989 - 2002)
- Calvary Welfare Services (1985 - 1993)
- Calvary Youth Services Mandurah Inc. (1993 - )
- Carlisle Group House (1976 - 1994?)
- Carmel House (1983 - 1991)
- Chesterfield House, Rockingham Youth External Accommodation Project (1983 - )
- City of Canning Youth Accommodation Service (1994 - ?)
- Fremantle Community Youth Services (1977 - ?)
- Fusion Student Household (1995 - )
- Golden Mile Youth Hostel (1989 - 1999)
- Great Mates - Armadale Youth Crisis Accommodation (2003 - 2005?)
- Hillview Child and Adolescent Clinic (1985? - 1995)
- Jesus People (Inc) (1974 - 1997)
- Kalgoorlie Boulder Youth Accommodation Service (1999 - )
- Karingal (Nyandi Annexe) (1976 - 1989?)
- Karratha Youth Housing (1987 - 2008)
- Kartanup (1970 - 1984)
- Kyewong Hostel (1967? - 2002?)
- Langford Youth Accommodation Service (1986? - 2001)
- Mission Australia - Youth Accommodation and Support Service (YASS) (1991 - )
- Mission Australia (1997 - )
- Neuville (1971 - 1987)
- PICYS (Perth Inner City Youth Service) Household Network (1980 - )
- Prom Hostel (1986 - 1992)
- South Perth Refuge (1978? - 1991?)
- STAY Geraldton (1984 - )
- StreetsYde (1988 - 2014)
- Strelley Station (1981? - 1983?)
- Stuart House (1963 - 1988?)
- Swan Accommodation Service (The Junction) (1980 - )
- TINOCA (Youth Futures WA) (1986 - )
- Tudor Lodge (1952 - 2003)
- Victoria Park Youth Accommodation (1983 - )
- Warralea (1973 - 1986)
- Werribee (1962 - 1985)
- Westview (1981 - )
- Withnell House (1952 - 1969?)
- Yaandina Family Centre (1974 - 1995?)
- Yes! Housing (1997 - )
- Yirra Hostel (1986 - 1993)
- Young House (1980s - )
- Young Single Women's Refuge (c. 1980 - 1991)
- Youth Accommodation Program- Youth Involvement Council (Hedland) (1983 - )
- Youth Care (1983 - 1990)
- Youth Household (1985 - 1988)
- Adoption Agency
- The term Adoption Agency refers to any organisation involved in the adoption of babies and children, whether this was mandated by legislation or not. The adoption of children was, and is, controlled by state laws and the states of Australia introduced their first adoption acts at different times, beginning with Western Australia in 1896. Prior to the existence of legislation which legally recognised adoption, 'de facto', 'private' or 'unofficial' adoptions took place. These adoptions were arranged by individuals (such as midwives, or solicitors), by organisations (such as religious or charitable agencies), as well as by government departments.
- The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School (1950 - 1956)
- Alexandra Home for Women (1916 - 1950)
- Child Protection and Family Support (2017 - ), State of Western Australia
- Child Welfare Department (1927 - 1972), State of Western Australia
- Children's Protection Society (1906 - 1994?)
- Department for Child Protection (2007 - 2013), State of Western Australia
- Department for Child Protection and Family Support (2013 - 2017), State of Western Australia
- Department for Community Development (1992 - 1995), State of Western Australia
- Department for Community Development (2001 - 2007), State of Western Australia
- Department for Community Services (1985 - 1992), State of Western Australia
- Department for Community Welfare (1972 - 1985), State of Western Australia
- Department for Family and Children's Services (1995 - 2001), State of Western Australia
- Family Care Society (1989 - )
- Hillcrest Maternity Home (1922 - 1974)
- House of Mercy (1891 - 1916)
- Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc (1956 - 1989)
- Public Charities and State Children Department (1908 - 1917), State of Western Australia
- St Anne's Maternity Home (c. 1958 - 1982)
- St Anne's Nursing Home (1937 - c. 1958)
- St John of God Hospital, Subiaco (1898 - )
- St Margaret's Hostel (1918 - 1971)
- State Children Department (1917 - 1927), State of Western Australia
- Adoption Information Service
- The term Adoption Information Service refers to a program established under state or territory adoption legislation to provide access to information to the parties involved in an adoption (i.e. the birth parent/s, the adoptee, the adoptive parents).
- Adoption Jigsaw, Western Australia (Inc) (1978 - )
- Adoption Services, Child Protection and Family Support (1994? - )
- Advisory Council
- The term Advisory Council refers to a group established by legislation to act in an advisory capacity to government on a particular area of policy (such as child welfare).
- Advisory and Co-ordinating Committee on Child Abuse [ACCCA] (c. 1984 - c. 1994)
- Care for Children Advisory Committee (1999 - 2002)
- Care of Children Committee [United Kingdom] (1946)
- Child Abuse Review Panel (1984 - 1985)
- Child Death Review Committee (2003 - 2008), State of Western Australia
- Child Sexual Abuse Task Force (1986 - 1987)
- Children and Young People in Care Advisory Committee (2002 - 2003?)
- Committee to Consider the Capitation Grant for Orphanages (1884), Crown Colony of Western Australia
- Consultative Committee on Residential Child Care [and Interim Committee] (1977 - 1993)
- CREATE Foundation (1999 - )
- Mentally Impaired Accused Review Board (1997 - )
- Ministerial Advisory Council on Child Protection [I, Western Australia] (2003 - 2008?)
- Ministerial Advisory Council on Child Protection [II, Western Australia] (2009 - )
- Out of Home Preventative and Alternative Care Planning and Coordination Committee (1994 - 1998)
- Taskforce to Identify the scope and extent of the 'stolen wages' issue, and to suggest policy options and administration issues [Stolen Wages Taskforce] (2007 - 2008)
- Western Australian Child Protection Council (1997 - c. 2002)
- Advocacy Body
- An Advocacy Body is a group formed by people who share concerns around a particular issue, in this case child welfare, and who seek to raise the priority of their concerns on the public and/or government agendas.
- Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc.) (1973 - )
- Adoption Jigsaw, Western Australia (Inc) (1978 - )
- Adults Surviving Child Abuse (1995 - 2016)
- Alliance for Forgotten Australians
- Association Representing Mothers Separated from their Children by Adoption Inc (1987 - )
- Broken Rites (1992 - )
- Care Leavers Australia Network (2000 - )
- CBERS Consultancy (2006 - 2012)
- CBERSS: Christian Brothers Ex Residents and Students Services (1995 - 2005)
- Child Migrant Friendship Society (1987? - 2001?)
- Child Migrants Trust (1987 - )
- Children's Protection Society (1906 - 1994?)
- Country Women's Association of Western Australia (1924 - )
- CREATE Foundation (1999 - )
- FACT (Forgotten Australians Coming Together) (2009 - )
- Incest Survivors Association Inc (1984 - )
- The International Association of Former Child Migrants and Their Families (1994 - )
- Kimberley Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation (2001 - )
- Mentally Incurable Children's Association (1954 - 1986)
- Nulsen Haven Association (Inc) (1986 - )
- Slow Learning Children's Group (1951 - 1989)
- Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty Exploitation and Supporters (1991 - )
- Watchmen in God's Service (Inc) [WINGS] (1998? - 2006?)
- Amending Act
- An Amending Act is a law passed to amend (change) another law. Amending Acts can change original pieces of legislation (Principal Acts) or they can change previous Amending Acts.
- Aborigines Act 1889 (1890 - 1898)
- Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1911 (1911 - 1964)
- Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1936 (1936 - 1964)
- Aborigines Protection Act (Amendment) 1892 (1892 - 1906)
- Acts Amendment (Authority for Intellectually Handicapped Persons) Act 1985 (1985 - 1996)
- Acts Amendment (Evidence of Children and Others) Act 1992
- Acts Amendment (Sexual Offences) Act 1992
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1953 (1954 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1915 (1915 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1916 (1916 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1921 (1921 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1926 (1926 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1945 (1946 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1949 (1949 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1953 (1954 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1959 (1959 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1962 (1962 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1964 (1970 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1971 (1972 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1973 (1974 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1977 (1977 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Amendment Act 1976 (1976 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Amendment Act 1980 (1981 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Amendment Act 1981 (1982 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Amendment Act 1984 (1984 - 1995)
- Adoption of Children Amendment Act 1985 (1986 - 1995)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1962 (1962 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1941 (1942 - 1948)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1952 (1952 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1958 (1958 - 2004)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1962 (1962 - 2004)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1965 (1966 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1967 (1967 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1969 (1970 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1970 (1970 - 2006)
- Child Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 1976 (1976 - 2006)
- Children and Community Services Amendment (Reporting Sexual Abuse of Children) 2008 (2009 - )
- Children and Community Services Amendment Act 2010 (2010 - )
- Community Welfare Act Amendment Act 1978 (1980 - 2006)
- Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 2) 1956 (1956 - )
- Criminal Code Amendment Act 1918 (1918 - )
- Criminal Code Amendment Act 1965 (1965 - )
- Disability Services Amendment Act 1999 (1999 - )
- Disability Services Amendment Act 2004 (2004 - )
- Disability Services Amendment Act 2012 (2012 - )
- Disability Services Amendment Act 2014 (2014 - )
- Education Act Amendment Act 1952 (1952 - 1999)
- Education Act Amendment Act 1962 (1962 - 1999)
- Health Act Amendment Act 1918 (1918 - )
- Industrial Schools Act 1874 Amendment Act 1877 (1877 - 1893)
- Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act 1882 (1882 - 1907)
- Lunacy Act Amendment Act 1920 (1921 - 1962)
- Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1965 (1965 - 1996)
- Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1976 (1976 - 1996)
- Native Administration Act Amendment Act 1941 (1941 - 1963)
- Native Welfare Act 1954 (1955 - 1964)
- Native Welfare Act Amendment Act 1960 (1960 - 1963)
- Public Education Amendment Act 1905 (1905 - 1928)
- State Children Act Amendment Act 1915 (1915 - 1948)
- State Children Act Amendment Act 1919 (1919 - 1948)
- State Children Act Amendment Act 1921 (1921 - 1948)
- State Children Act Amendment Act 1926 (1926 - 1948)
- State Children Act Amendment Act 1927 (1927 - 1948)
- Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 - )
- Anglican
- The term Anglican describes a person or orgnisation affiliated with the Anglican Church.
- Advisory Council of Empire Settlement (1925 - 1981), United Kingdom
- Anglican Diocese of Bunbury (1904 - )
- Anglican Diocese of Kalgoorlie (1914 - 1973)
- Anglican Diocese of North West Australia (1910 - )
- Anglican Diocese of Perth (1856 - )
- Anglican Farm School, Stoneville (1955 - 1961)
- Anglican Health and Welfare Services (1974 - 2003)
- The Anglican Homes Board (1955 - 1970)
- The Anglican Homes Board: Swanleigh Council (1971)
- Anglican Orphanages Board of Management (1940 - 1954)
- Anglicare Emergency Foster Care Scheme (1989 - 1992)
- Anglicare Fostering Futures (2010 - 2017)
- Anglicare Homesharers (1982 - 1992)
- Anglicare Teenshare (1991 - 2010)
- Anglicare WA (2003 - )
- Anglicare Youth House (1994 - 1995?)
- Annesfield (1852 - 1871)
- Belmont Cottage (1979? - )
- Bentley House (1972? - 2006?)
- Bishop Hale's Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children (1871 - 1888)
- Carlisle Group House (1976 - 1994?)
- Chesterfield House, Rockingham Youth External Accommodation Project (1983 - )
- The Children's Society (1881 - ), United Kingdom
- The Committee (1868 - 1888)
- Community of the Sisters of the Church (1908 - )
- Forrest Lodge (1939 - 1968)
- Forrest River Mission (1913 - 1968)
- Fremantle Cottage (1978? - )
- Fremantle Native School (1842 - 1851)
- Girls' Friendly Society (Western Australia) (1888 - )
- Girls' Friendly Society Lodge (1915 - 1990?)
- Girls' High School, Kalgoorlie (1902 - 1916)
- Hillston Point Walter Annexe (1958? - 1984?)
- Hillston, Anglican Farm School, Stoneville (1962 - 1969)
- Home for Girls (1883 - 1888?)
- Jenny House (1994 - 2008)
- Lake Grace Farm Training School (1964? - 1972?)
- Lambeth Palace Library, United Kingdom
- Malcolm Street Receiving Home (1907)
- Manguri (1988 - 2002)
- Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls (1931 - 1952)
- McDonald House (1952 - 1985?)
- Merredin Residential College (1954 - )
- Northam Residential College (2003 - )
- Orphanages' Committee (1889 - 1939)
- Padbury Boys' Farm School (1946 - 1955)
- Parkerville Children and Youth Care (Inc) (2005 - )
- Parkerville Children's Home (1909 - 2005)
- Parkerville Children's Home Incorporated (1925 - 2005)
- Penny Jones House (2008 - )
- Perth Boys' Orphanage (1869 - 1876)
- Perth College (1902 - )
- Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
- The Priory Hostel, Albany (1955? - 1988?)
- Professional Standards, Anglican Diocese of Perth (2004 - )
- Redhill Reformatory School (1903 - 1922)
- Seaside House, Coogee (1931 - 1968)
- Sisters of St Elizabeth of Hungary (1928 - 1957)
- Sisters of the Church (1901 - 1908)
- Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent (1933 - 1941)
- St Andrew's Hostel, Esperance (1968 - 2000?)
- St Christopher's Hostel, Northam (1941 - 2002)
- St James Residential College, Moora (c. 1977 - )
- St Peter's Boys' School, Fremantle (1903)
- Swan Boys' Orphanage (1876 - 1942)
- Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)
- Swan Native and Half Caste Mission (c. 1880 - 1920)
- Swanleigh (1960 - 2010)
- Swanleigh Council (1959 - 1961)
- Swanleigh Council (1972 - 2010)
- The Swanleigh Hostel Council (1962 - 1970)
- Tower House (1901 - 1903)
- Waif's Home, Parkerville (1903 - 1909)
- Yes! Housing (1997 - )
