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List of Categories
- Peak Body
- Peak Bodies are organisations, often formed out of grass roots activism or interest in a particular issue, which act as a representative voice for the people and or groups who are their members.
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering (1978 - )
- Catholic Child Welfare Council (1929 - 2003), United Kingdom
- Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (1970 - 1977)
- Policy
- The term Policy refers to a guiding principle adopted by a group, sector or government with respect to a particular issue.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principles (1985 - )
- Assimilation (1930s - 1970s)
- Child and Youth Migration to Western Australia (1913 - 1968)
- Presbyterian
- The term Presbyterian describes a person or organisation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
- Benmore Presbyterian Children's Home (1947 - 1962?)
- Burnbrae Presbyterian Children's Home (1938 - 1956)
- Collins House (1975 - 1987)
- Council Presbyterian Children's Homes (1938? - 1963?)
- Manguri (1988 - 2002)
- Mowanjum (1956 - 1972)
- Port George IV Mission (1912 - 1951)
- Presbyterian Church (1879 - 1977)
- Rangevue Hostel (1969 - 1973?)
- Sister Kate's Child and Family Care Services (1980 - 1988)
- Sister Kate's Children's Cottage Home (1934 - 1980)
- Terrace House (1976 - 1980)
- Wotjulum (1951 - 1956)
- Principal Act
- A Principal Act is the original piece of legislation enacted to introduce a particular policy. A Principal Act can be amended (changed) by Amending Acts.
- Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972 (1972 - )
- Aboriginal Girls Protection 1844 (1844 - 1906)
- Aborigines Act 1897 (1898 - 1906)
- Aborigines Act 1905 (1906 - 1964)
- Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (1887 - 1906)
- Adoption Act 1994 (1994 - )
- Adoption of Children Act 1896 (1896 - 1995)
- Anglican Church of Australia (Swanleigh Land and Endowments) Act 1979 (1979 - )
- Assisted Schools Abolition Act 1895 (1895 - )
- Authority for Intellectually Handicapped Persons Act 1985 (1985 - )
- Bastardy Laws Act 1875 (1875 - )
- Births, deaths and marriages registration 1841 (1841 - )
- Child Welfare Act 1947 (1948 - 2006)
- Children and Community Services Act 2004 (2004 - )
- Children's Court of Western Australia Act 1988 (1988 - )
- Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1894 (1894 - )
- Community Welfare Act 1972 (1972 - 2006)
- Country High School Hostels Authority Act 1960 (1960 - )
- Crime (Serious and Repeat Offenders) Sentencing Act 1992 (1992 - 1994)
- Criminal Code Act 1902 (1902 - )
- Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (1996 - )
- Criminal Law Amendment Act 1892 (1892 - )
- Destitute Persons Relief Ordinance (1845 - 1994)
- Disability Services Act 1992 (1992 - 1993)
- Disability Services Act 1993 (1993 - )
- Education Act 1928 (1928 - 1999)
- Empire Settlement Act (1922 - 1976), Commonwealth of Australia
- Factories Act 1904 (1904 - 1920)
- Freedom of Information Act 1992 (1992 - )
- Guardians to Child Immigrants Act (1842 - 1964)
- Health Act 1898 (1898 - 1911)
- Health Act 1911 (1911 - )
- Health and Disability Services (Complaints) Act 1995 (1995 - )
- Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1893 (1893 - 1907)
- Industrial Schools Act 1874 (1874 - 1893)
- Lunacy Act 1871 (1871 - 1903)
- Lunacy Act 1903 (1903 - 1962)
- Mental Health Act 1962 (1962 - 1996)
- Mental Treatment Act 1917 (1917 - 1927)
- Mental Treatment Act 1927 (1927 - )
- Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944 (1944 - 1971)
- Native (Citizenship Rights) Act Repeal Act 1971 (1971 - )
- Native Welfare Act 1963 (1963 - 1972)
- Parental Support and Responsibility Act 2008 (2008 - 2016)
- Public Education Act 1899 (1899 - 1928)
- The Salvation Army (Western Australia) Property Trust Act 1931 (1931 - )
- State Children Act 1907 (1907 - 1948)
- Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Act 2004 (2004 - )
- Young Offenders Act 1994 (1994 - )
- Prison
- Prison refers to a place for the detention of adults in secure custody, either on remand or after sentencing by a court. Adult prisons continue to be places of detention for some young people in Australia, despite the existence of specific youth and juvenile justice facilities.
- Barton's Mill Prison (1942 - 1989)
- Protestant
- The term Protestant describes a person or organisation affiliated with any one of the Protestant Churches. With child welfare, services were often clustered under the umbrella terms of Protestant and Catholic.
- Aborigines' Inland Mission (1907 - 1909)
- Anglican Farm School, Stoneville (1955 - 1961)
- Anglicare Youth House (1994 - 1995?)
- Annesfield (1852 - 1871)
- Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission Hostel (1966 - 1980?)
- Australian Aborigines' Evangelical Mission (1949 - 1980s)
- Australian Aborigines' Mission (1908 - 1929)
- Australian Churches of Christ Indigenous Ministries (2009 - 2013)
- Belmont Cottage (1979? - )
- Bethel Inc. (1964 - 1986)
- Bishop Hale's Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children (1871 - 1888)
- Canning Highway Bethel Home (1966 - 1982?)
- Carlisle Group House (1976 - 1994?)
- Chesterfield House, Rockingham Youth External Accommodation Project (1983 - )
- Christian Brethren (1947 - )
- Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (Inc) (1942 - 2009)
- Collie Boys' Home (1902 - 1920)
- Condingup Hostel (1967? - 1976)
- Cosmo Newbery Mission (1953 - 1973?)
- Dellahale House (1964 - 2001)
- Derby Hostel (1956 - 1994)
- Dulhi Gunyah (1909 - 1918)
- Ebenezer Home (1968 - )
- Fairhaven Hostel (1965 - 1987)
- Fitzroy Crossing Mission (1952 - 1987)
- Forrest Lodge (1939 - 1968)
- Forrest River Mission (1913 - 1968)
- Fremantle Cottage (1978? - )
- Fremantle Native School (1842 - 1851)
- Geraldton Protestant Children's Home Inc (1921 - ?)
- Girls' Friendly Society Lodge (1915 - 1990?)
- Girls' High School, Kalgoorlie (1902 - 1916)
- Gnowangerup Mission (1926 - 1973)
- Greenbushes Hostel (1942 - 1946)
- Halls Creek Mission (1943 - 1960)
- Hillston Point Walter Annexe (1958? - 1984?)
- Hillston, Anglican Farm School, Stoneville (1962 - 1969)
- Home for Girls (1883 - 1888?)
- Jenny House (1994 - 2008)
- John Frewer House (1968 - 2001)
- Karalundi Mission (1954 - 1974)
- Kenwick Farm (1947 - 1961)
- Kurrawang Mission (1952 - 1984)
- Malcolm Street Receiving Home (1907)
- Marribank (1952 - 1988)
- Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls (1931 - 1952)
- Memorial Cottage, Roleystone (1942 - 1944)
- Meribah (1972 - c. 1986)
- Merredin Residential College (1954 - )
- Methodist Girls' Home (1917 - 1924)
- Millington Street Bethel Home (1962? - 1982?)
- Mofflyn Child and Family Care Services (1984 - 2006)
- Mount Margaret Mission (1921 - 1975)
- Northam Residential College (2003 - )
- Padbury Boys' Farm School (1946 - 1955)
- Parkerville Children's Home (1909 - 2005)
- Penny Jones House (2008 - )
- Perth Boys' Orphanage (1869 - 1876)
- Perth College (1902 - )
- Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
- The Priory Hostel, Albany (1955? - 1988?)
- Protestant Children's Home (1921 - 1964)
- Pukulari Cottage (1974 - 1984)
- Redhill Reformatory School (1903 - 1922)
- Roelands Native Mission Farm (1938 - 1975)
- Roelands Village (1975 - 1984)
- Salvation Army (1897 - ), Western Australia
- Salvation Army Industrial School for Boys [Collie] (1901 - 1920)
- Salvation Army Industrial School for Girls, Collie (1901 - 1920)
- Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Reformatory (1920 - 1955)
- Seaforth Salvation Army Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
- Seaside House, Coogee (1931 - 1968)
- Shiloh (c. 1949 - 1963)
- Sister Kate's Child and Family Care Services (1980 - 1988)
- 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)
- Sunday Island Mission (1899 - 1934)
- Sunday Island Mission (1937 - 1964)
- Swan Boys' Orphanage (1876 - 1942)
- Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)
- Swan Native and Half Caste Mission (c. 1880 - 1920)
- Swanleigh (1960 - 2010)
- Tower House (1901 - 1903)
- United Aborigines Mission (1929 - 2019?)
- United Aborigines Mission, Halls Creek (1957 - 1967)
- Uniting Church Child and Family Care Services (1977 - 1984?)
- Vailima Hostel (1971? - 1977)
- Ventnor Avenue Bethel Home (1970 - 1982?)
- Waif's Home, Parkerville (1903 - 1909)
- Warburton Mission (1933 - 1977)
- Watchmen in God's Service (Inc) [WINGS] (1998? - 2006?)
- Western Australian Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1890 - )
- Wiluna Mission (1955 - 1975)
- Wollaston (1973 - 1995?)
- Wongutha Mission Training Farm (1954 - 1993)
- Wotjulum (1934 - 1937)
- Yes! Housing (1997 - )
- Public Servant
- A Public Servant is a person who works for the government, for example in a state, territory or federal department, but who was hired, rather than elected, to that position.
- Chief Protector of Aborigines (1898 - 1936)
- Colonial Surgeon (1830 - 1895)
- Director of Mental Health Services (1966 - 1984)
- Inspector General of Mental Hospitals (1947 - 1966)
- Inspector General of the Insane (1904 - 1947)
- Principal Medical Officer (1895 - 1911)
- Superintendent of Poor Relief and Inspector of Charitable Institutions (1874 - 1908)
- Superintending Medical Officer of Asylums (1901 - 1903?)